Amjad Ali Khan Quotes
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.
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I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.
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English and world music were something that I had immense love for, and to get together with a fellow Indian and bring this sound and vibe to the world feels great.
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There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love and having a good time.
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Music is like the ocean, it does not belong to any one race or culture
