Raza Jaffrey Quotes
There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.
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I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal that they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.
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Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.
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From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.
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From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.
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It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.
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I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself. It came accidentally.
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Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up.
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I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.
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The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
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There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.
