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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My imagination is a twisted place.
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I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.
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Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.
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The siren song of pluralism will always drown out the sobering voice of history.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.
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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.
