Behdad Sami Quotes
I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
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Doing a lot of drama earlier in my career and now exploring comedy has been a treat for me, and I've had an absolute blast, and I hope to continue.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
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I don't take vacations.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.
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To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
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You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.
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I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.
