Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
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I always choose to remember the moment that was the best of Jeanne Cooper - those photos where she's in that wild dress triumphantly hoisting up the Emmy the night she finally won the damn thing. She was so proud, so happy.
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Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
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Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
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You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.
