Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes
Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
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... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.
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No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
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My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
