Said Sayrafiezadeh Quotes

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

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IdentityDrivingWantBeingForces

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Andrew Johnson

MeFeelBeenThrownIncompetent

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.

Rogers Hornsby

BackAlwaysBoxBallThroughTried

My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.

Jonathan Anderson

FatherMotherTeacherParentsTeam

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

Dennis Muren

TrustWayMoreSomethingThanAlso

If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

Chris Isaak

FocusFunMeThinkAttentionTry

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.

Anson Mount

GunLivingHuntingWayUpRoom

Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is rife with mysteries, and that visit ignited a fire to unveil some of them.

Ashwin Sanghi

HistoryFireMeWritingBookPerson

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Woody Allen

NightSaturdaySaturday NightChances

Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.

Pieter Zeeman

DirectionNowTwoUpForceOpposite

The 'Crossfire' demographic is all-encompassing. Age, gender, religion, culture... it doesn't matter.

Sylvia Day

AgeCultureReligionGenderMatter

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

Nina Fedoroff

EnvironmentalEndMoreRefugeesUp

Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.

Linda Sue Park

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