Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.
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I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
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A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.
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I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.
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You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
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If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.
