Said Sayrafiezadeh Quotes
The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.

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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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I love working the legislative process.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.
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My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.
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I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could express their own emotions using that as a structure.
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In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
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The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.