Mariam Naficy Quotes
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.
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'Aye, build it on these banks,' the monarch said,'That when the autumn winds have swept the sea,They may come hither with their falling rains,A voice of mighty weeping o'er her grave.'
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Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye.
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If literature (realistic) did really resemble life, it would be interminable, dreary, commonplace eating and dressing, buttoning, with here and there a patch of vividness. Life is composed of exquisite moments and the rest is shadows of them.
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I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.
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When he was wounded with an arrow in the ankle, and many ran to him that were wont to call him a god, he said smiling, 'That is blood, as you see, and not, as Homer saith, ‘such humour as distils from blessed gods.''
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We can go and play in front of 30,000 people and we wouldn't give a shit. We wouldn't be nervous or anything. But if we played in front of our friends we'd be like really embarrassed and really nervous.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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Excellent content is available online to everyone. I like it because it's a flattening of the playing field.
