Bijan Pakzad (Bijan) Quotes
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.
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Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
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When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.
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I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.
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I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.
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I've sold my soul to the devil.
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How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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Fear is a lack of love, just as darkness is a lack of light.
