Aasif Mandvi Quotes
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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So into the woods we went—it was surprisingly noisy. Especially one loud bird whose chirping sounded far too cheerful for the middle of the night.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
