Behdad Sami Quotes
I'ma forgive all the people that took my kindness as weakness. I'ma forgive anyone who never hit me back. I'ma forgive all ya'll. I won't forget.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
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Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
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I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
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I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
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Friends can have different dreams and do different things.
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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.
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I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.
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I'ma forgive all the people that took my kindness as weakness. I'ma forgive anyone who never hit me back. I'ma forgive all ya'll. I won't forget.
