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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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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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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Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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It is absurd that so much money has been wasted on manipulating public opinion, on simulating emotion. This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can’t manufacture the happiness of our people.
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My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.
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As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
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There's already a world of evidence that life on Earth is unique and intelligently crafted.
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Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
