Kumail Nanjiani Quotes
I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s. My wife knows everything about music, and I try and get her to educate me, but it's just not part of my DNA.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.
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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
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Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.
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I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s. My wife knows everything about music, and I try and get her to educate me, but it's just not part of my DNA.
