Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.
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Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.
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The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.
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The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.
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You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.
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In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.
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It's a democracy, and the reason why the conservative movement loses is because it believes that it is elite, that the smartest in its midst who have gone to the right schools and who have worked at the right think tanks and have the right opinions and the right friends can run it for the rest of America. That's why I'm a Tea Party adherent over a Republican or conservative establishment adherent.
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Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.
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When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.
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I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.
