Imran Khan Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
