Said Sayrafiezadeh Quotes
I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
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The reality is different. They are so matured as far as democracy is concerned, they rejected the color TV promised by Congress. They rejected the color TV, and they accepted a person who says that I'll serve the notice to tax evaders. And this is the strength of the democracy.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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I'm one of the only actresses in Los Angeles who has never waited tables - yet - and I'm so terrible at holding trays. When we shot the 'Vampire Diaries' pilot, I totally spilled water all down Nina Dobrev, and she had to get her hair and make-up redone.
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I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'Wait, Jacob's been trying to get Bella this entire time, and he strikes out, so he goes for her child?' I was so confused. It took me a second.
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I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.
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I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion.
