Imtiaz Ali Quotes
I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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Day one through three of the radio tour, I actually went by Camaron Ochs. I went to my first set of radio remotes, and everybody was just like 'What's your last name?' It's not easy to pronounce. The first two minutes I got with people, that's what they wanted to talk about, and sometimes those two minutes is all you get.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
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The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.
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I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.
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We have to think big. We have to imagine big, and that's part of the problem. We're letting other people imagine and lead us down what paths they want to take us. Sometimes they're very limited in the way their ideas are constructed. We need to imagine much more broadly. That's the work of a writer, and more writers should look at it.
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I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.
