Said Sayrafiezadeh Quotes
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
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The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
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Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
