Behdad Sami Quotes
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.
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The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
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When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights-the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
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And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
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There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
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Unless you're God, you are never too "big" to be a fan.
