Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of 'Mad' magazine.
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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I am not honest.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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God does arithmetic.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
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It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
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We really don't discover fully what 'Westworld' is for this first season, until we get there. The first 10 episodes are the journey. The colors become brighter, the vistas become clearer, and the history is more understood with each step we take along the way.
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The thing that struck me most was the way he stuck to the motif in the 'Flag' and 'Target' paintings by Jasper Johns .. ..the idea of stripes – the rhythm and the interval – the idea of repetition. I began to think a lot about repetition. quote, 1960's
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Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of 'Mad' magazine.
