Said Sayrafiezadeh Quotes
My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.
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Being introverted, it doesn't mean necessarily being shy or being afraid of public speaking; it just means that it's hard for me to interact with people for too long.
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
