Behdad Sami Quotes
Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
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How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
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People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
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Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.
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Ozon.ru is made up of four businesses. Ozon.ru is an online retailer, O'Courier focuses on shipping, Ozon.Travel, and our most recent acquisition, Sapato, the leading online shoe and accessory retailer.
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My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
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Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.
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I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.
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To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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It is fear that drives the hippies to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a 'greater whole,' it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the momentary illusion of an unearned personal significance.
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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
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The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
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I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.
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Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.
