Behdad Sami Quotes
Create your own path and stop waiting for things to come your way. The longer you wait, the further others go.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
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I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.
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Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature
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We built a business on relationships, and that's what matters to us.
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For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.
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I don't necessarily believe that 'The Cosby Show' should disappear as a cultural reference, but it is. That's sad to me. I understand why. He was a man who possibly did some really bad things, and he should be punished beyond a doubt. But that show, and the impact it had not just on black culture, but culture, was amazing.
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'I Was There Too' talks to people who played non-starring roles in big movies. That means the likes of comedian Jimmy Pardo, who didn't make it to the finished 'Dreamgirls.' Still, he recalls that when an actor is put on hold for a movie, he gets paid for two weeks just for sitting at home waiting to be called.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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My contribution to film has always been negligible.
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Create your own path and stop waiting for things to come your way. The longer you wait, the further others go.
