Behdad Sami Quotes
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
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It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
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I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.
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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
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In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Work hard until hard work isn't work at all.
