Behdad Sami Quotes

Being successful is not determined by the amount of money you make but by the amount of lives you affect and influence for the better.

Behdad Sami

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• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Know
  • Written
  • Arts

• I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • School
  • Friends
  • Me

• Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Real
  • Want
  • Yourself

• I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfort

• For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Knowledge

• My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Done
  • Die
  • Myself

• No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Value
  • Integrity

• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
  • Saying

• I love working with women.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Love
  • Working

• Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Job
  • You
  • Control

• I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Choices
  • Feel
  • Right

• I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • History
  • Myself
  • Journey

• When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there's a whole other world that comes with it. It's a very small percent that's difficult, stalker-like, or annoying. Most people are just so gracious and so nice. As cheesy as it sounds, that's the thing that really keeps you going.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • World
  • Movie

• Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Done

• No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Man
  • Thoroughly
  • Godless

• 'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • People
  • Love
  • Together

• The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Find
  • Interest
  • Mystery

• I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Sexy

• There is nothing I ever wanted, if I wanted it bad enough, that I didn't get.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Bad
  • Wanted

• I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

  

  Banks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Black

• We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.

  

  Longchenpa
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Reality

• Being successful is not determined by the amount of money you make but by the amount of lives you affect and influence for the better.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Money
  • Influence
  • Affect