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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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.
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Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
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But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
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I wrote 'Bamboozled' to expose and uncover the lies liberals have used for generations to exploit minorities for the vote.
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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.
