Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes
When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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Like associates with like.
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This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise or, at least, neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
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As long as there is a new twist in the storyline, there cannot be any space for monotony.
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I always tell people, never wear anything that'll make them uncomfortable when you're trying to go out and have a good time.
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It's great to work with people who are jobbing actors at different stages of their career, and learning from them, and getting over being star-struck by somebody like Ian McKellen because he has such a long prestigious history in the business, but then seeing how he works on the camera; you never stop learning.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
