Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Shervin Pishevar Quotes

I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.

Shervin Pishevar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: iranian
Birth: 1974

Topics

Child Me Political Falling Because

There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe?

Character Important More Human Need

I absolutely love genre movies. When I was a kid, I was really impacted by genre films and cult classics.

Love Movies Kid Cult Classics Genre

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

College Me Take Going Sure Happened

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

That's what I love about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another. And that's what I hate about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Love Hate Together New York People

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.

Alice McDermott

Parents Brooklyn Irish Raised Both

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Good Christian Pray Who Govern Does

Now 'Boondock II,' people are gonna see it because they liked the first one. There won't be very many people who go see it who aren't familiar with the first one.

Sean Patrick Flanery

People Go Now First See Because

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

Tim Berners-Lee

People Me I Can Ask Function

All of us just go to college and waste our time and to pass our exams. So just learning journalism does not mean I'm good at it or any of the journalists are, either. There is no difference; it's just class, and it's just college.

Learning Good Time College Go Class

I've done an awful lot of skiing all over Europe: I've done Italy, Austria, France. I skied loads in New Zealand - I did pretty much every ski slope I could find.

Richard C. Armitage

Skiing Find New Done Over Europe

I've got to say, I like being the everyman.

Martin Henderson

Say Being Got Like Everyman

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Shervin Pishevar