Imtiaz Ali Quotes
I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
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There's not one day that goes by that I'm not listening to one of my songs or in rehearsal for one of my songs or dancing to one of my songs.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
