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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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 meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
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Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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on being condescended to by a flight attendant Ma'am, when I got up this morning, I didn't wanna be a jackass...you just pushed my jackass button.
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
