Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
My parents don't really understand my career. They don't really bring it up that much.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
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I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.
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It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.
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I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
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My parents don't really understand my career. They don't really bring it up that much.
