Nadeem Aslam Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a long time.
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
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My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
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I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.
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Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
