Omar Amanat Quotes
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.
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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
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I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
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It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going.
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I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
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My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'
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I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.
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The best businesses are the ones that are the most paranoid.
