Aasif Mandvi Quotes
I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.
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People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.
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I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.
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You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.
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The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.
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I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.
