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 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 work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.
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You need to be lucky in life, but it's also what you do with your luck.
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There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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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.
