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.

  

  Camila Alves
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  • Time
  • Together

• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

  

  Carla Bruni
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  • Mother
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Some
  • Harry Potter

• I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Together
  • Struggle
  • Feel

• I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Friends
  • Child
  • Fight

• 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.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Work
  • Long
  • Interesting

• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Real
  • Father
  • Like

• Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Cool

• I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Feel
  • Opportunities

• 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.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Teaching
  • Teachers
  • Salaries

• Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Man
  • Cancer
  • Nothing

• When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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  • Hair

• 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.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Education

• When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.

  

  Craig Sheffer
  • Star

• It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

  

  Jean Anouilh
  • Courage
  • Greatness

• The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Church

• Whether you either passionately think we should stay in, or on balance think we should stay in, or on a balance of risks think we should stay in - for heaven's sake get out and vote in, because you might wake up and find out you're out.

  

  David Cameron
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• I really love the movies of Katherine Hepburn, movies like 'The African Queen.' I love 'Midnight Run' and I suppose, to pick something out of a different genre, I love 'Aliens.'

  

  Doug Liman
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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.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
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