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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I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.
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I could not remove myself from this debate about Trump. I could not abide his indecency. I could not live with the way he treated other people.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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People love stories. They need stories.
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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.
