Nadia Ali Quotes

As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

Nadia Ali

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• I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Always
  • Photographer
  • Vogue

• I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Decision
  • Religion
  • Thought

• A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Last

• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Done
  • Parents

• My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Myself
  • Open
  • Mail

• I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Think
  • Want
  • Coach

• The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Single
  • Moment

• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Inspire

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • Person
  • Creative
  • Jobs

• When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • New York
  • Homeless

• Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Future
  • Achievement
  • Gender

• We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Responsibility
  • Need
  • Take

• I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Study
  • Too Much
  • Cricket

• I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Think
  • Awesome

• I want to be an activist professor.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Want
  • Professor
  • Activist

• I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress's back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Good
  • She
  • Nice

• Yoko Ono was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • World
  • Way
  • Fight

• Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Brave
  • Marketing
  • Clever

• As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.

  

  Van Deren Coke
  • Important
  • Art
  • History

• I'm a very sensitive person. I do like to be respected. I'm very loyal. I like it to be a two-way street.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Way
  • Person
  • Sensitive

• As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Artist
  • Sensitive