Nadeem Aslam Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
-
I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
-
I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
-
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
-
Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
-
Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
-
Let the path be open to talent.
-
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
-
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
-
Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
-
When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
-
I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
-
After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
-
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
-
You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
-
I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
-
I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
-
I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
-
I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up.
-
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
-
I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.
-
We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted by God in the Constitution. I mean, I'm discriminated against all the time. I don't care. It doesn't bother me. [I'm discriminated against] because I'm old. I'm too old to get a job as a game show host. They say, well, the guy's 71 and in five years he'll be 76. And I'm a one per center, and I'm absolutely discriminated against as a one per center.
-
This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.
-
There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.
