Nadeem Aslam Quotes
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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.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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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.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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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.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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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.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
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The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
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Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
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You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'
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There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.
