Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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I don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do.
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Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.
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I live a wild and crazy life.
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While 'The Wire' feels startlingly lifelike, it is not, in fact, a naturalistic depiction of ghetto life. That kind of realism better describes an earlier miniseries of Simon's, 'The Corner,' which was based on the book of the same title that he and Ed Burns wrote, set in the same Baltimore ghetto.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
