15 Said Sayrafiezadeh Quotes for You to Enjoy

Said Sayrafiezadeh

American Playwright

Born: 1968

Father Job Living Me Mother Work

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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home. Said Sayrafiezadeh

The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read. Said Sayrafiezadeh

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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them. Said Sayrafiezadeh

Knowledge Experience Enemy Seen Own Military Books Television Bits Bits And Pieces Spin About My Own More Taking Putting Know Pieces Read Encounter Than Person Personal Personal Experience Movies Them Average Then Created Less There And Then Brief Watched Here

There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice. Said Sayrafiezadeh

Me Man Father Unknown Immensely Abandoned No Choice Something Had Exciting Noble Adventure Just Choice Who Imagine

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian. Said Sayrafiezadeh

More Feel Iranian Than Jewish

Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.' Said Sayrafiezadeh

Capitalism Experience Mother Degree Other Resources Worst Out Bad See Something Purposely Could Absolutely Had Look She How Authentic Families Get Did Done Refused Poor Who Actively Her

The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months. Said Sayrafiezadeh

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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back. Said Sayrafiezadeh

Work Christmas Me Remember Free Party Thinking Back Our Restaurant Restaurants Something Attended Names Parties Always Got Been Pathetic Front Which Little Worked

More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh. Said Sayrafiezadeh

Work You Reality People Country Else Our States More More People Know Left Friends Than Get Trying Walmart Behind Pittsburgh Literature Anywhere Anywhere Else Who Many United Lives United States Portraying

I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office. Said Sayrafiezadeh

Myself Post Word Before Dust Everything Tell Post Office Laundry One Word Proper Clean Write Attempt Put Feel Make Bed Least Go Office Maybe Dishes Place Even Away Need

I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.' Said Sayrafiezadeh

Work Job Living Martha Martha Stewart Most

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