Negin Farsad Quotes
There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
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I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.
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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
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You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
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Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
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To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.
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My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.
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And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It's a more articulated film, and because of that, I'm most proud of it.
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I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.
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My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so that's my background.
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When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.
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For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.
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I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.
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I'm a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London - I love that team, I wear their symbol around my neck on a chain - I've always had a soft spot for this little club.
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I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.
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There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.
