Maz Jobrani Quotes

#1. I tend not to make fun of religious groups anywhere I play.

Maz Jobrani

#2. Definitely in the West, we're all cast as the same now. Whether you're Indian, Pakistani, Arab, Iranian, Afghan or whatever, you just get thrown into this category. And nine times out of 10, you're depicted as bad.

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#3. When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'

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#4. You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

Kamila Shamsie

#5. So why someone would kill themselves to be with seventy-two inexperienced women is beyond me.

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#6. You know, funny can be universal.

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#7. If you come from a place of love, and you're not saying, 'I'm better than you,' that's one thing that allows you to talk about different ethnicities. It's almost like laughing with each other.

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#8. They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that.
But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart.

Cassandra Clare

#9. She wanted to run her finger over the blade of him even if it made her bleed, wanted to dance too close to the flame, wanted to take a risk that could destroy her

Nalini Singh

#10. Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

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#11. If you do finish the book and are still scared of me and people of my ilk, then I recommend you schedule an appointment with a therapist. Either that, or try writing your own book

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#12. He smiled that smile again. How could something so lazy do such busy things to her body?

Amy Andrews

#13. I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of parts, and not always be the guy with the accent.

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#14. Your powers of perception are astounding," the cat drawled. "Although I feel obliged to point out, in the interests of ontological exactitude, that I am in fact only half cat. Personally, though, I have always considered it the better half.

Django Wexler

#15. Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.

James Van Praagh