Nazanin Boniadi Quotes
First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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I think higher education is over-regulated.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
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I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by that I mean my son and to have that relationship with my son to give me that quiet confidence that I needed as a mother and as a woman. Now with Brooklyn, I am just so at ease; I am so comfortable.
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.
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First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
