Aasif Mandvi Quotes
My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.
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What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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I don't take myself too seriously.
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I need to be able to explain myself in context.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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My family is a little ridiculous. They're wild - really colorful and animated and big personalities.
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It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
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I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.
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Life is surreal and beautiful.
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I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.
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My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.
