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 am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the better, starting in your own little surroundings, together with people who believe in it, too. This way you can make it work and show others that it actually can work. That doesn't mean that everybody has to do it like you "or else..." If there is no compromise possible, then it turns into extremism, and I don't think that extremism ever added something positive to the world.
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I want a world championship. I think I'm very capable and I've become a tougher competitor. I think it's very much within my reach.
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Amazon has done something for all of retail, which is resetting the customer expectations about how quickly and easily you can get things.
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Washington Week, August 18, 2006
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
