Navid Negahban Quotes
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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It's not the time to look for excuses.
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I try to bring all that I am to my work and all that I experience. That includes how people react to the way I am - the prejudice and the celebrations.
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Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.
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As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
