Raza Jaffrey Quotes

'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on in a relationship between characters.

Raza Jaffrey

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• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

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• If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

  

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• The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

  

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• I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

  

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• It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

  

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• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

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• I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.

  

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• My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.

  

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• Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.

  

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• When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

  

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• The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.

  

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• When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

  

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• You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

  

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• I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

  

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• Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.

  

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• From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

  

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• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  

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• Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the mind and spirit.

  

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• If there's any sort of superpower we desperately need right now, it's this transcendental force that reminds us of union and connection. I think that superhero stories come from somewhere. We make these aspirational images, to remind us that we have this capacity in ourselves already. I think that electricity can run through disconnected wires. Superheroes, every single one of them, come from the world of imagination and they're played by humans, they're written by humans, and it's in the belief that we invest in these characters that they come to life.

  

  Ezra Miller
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• 'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on in a relationship between characters.

  

  Raza Jaffrey
  • Relationship
  • Characters
  • Between