Imtiaz Ali Quotes
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
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In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.
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Faith is the yes of the heart.
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I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.
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My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
