Verite Quotes
I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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I can hang out with all my boyfriend's friends. I know how to roll with the guys.
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There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
