Said Sayrafiezadeh Quotes
Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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When I am before the Blessed Sacrament I feel such a lively faith that I can't describe it. Christ in the Eucharist is almost tangible to me...When it is time for me to leave, I have to tear myself away from His sacred presence.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.
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You have to do what the market requires of you... You either keep swimming, or you sink.
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Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.
