Agha Shahid Ali Quotes
In the heart's wild space lies the space of wilderness. What won't one lose, what home one won't give forever!
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact, the opportunity would exist to do another, if it's a good script, I would be very anxious to work with Ridley Scott again; he's a very talented and passionate filmmaker. And I think it would be very interesting to revisit the character.
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In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.
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Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics.
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I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.
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The best music always results from ecstasies of logic.
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I've had chronic back pain since I was a preteen - like, 12. I have really funny posture. I developed this funny posture where I hunch my back a little bit when I'm playing, and I overuse my back muscles instead of my abs. My posture has put a lot of strain on my lower back.
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I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
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If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.
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Near-zero policy rates that may be considerably expansionary in an economy with high inflation could be contractionary when inflation is too close to zero, or worse, deflation has set in.
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I am very lucky I chose 100% of the songs on my show. My audience loves to hear absolute classics and I am in the wonderful position in being able to play them.
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In the heart's wild space lies the space of wilderness. What won't one lose, what home one won't give forever!
