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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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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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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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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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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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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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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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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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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One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.
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Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.
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It was so odd to have young kids singing 'Lovin' Feelin' because they knew it from 'Top Gun.'
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I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.
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I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses.
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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.
