Imtiaz Ali Quotes
Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
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My personal story is that my father was a heroin addict and a heroin dealer and has been in and out of prison my entire life, he's been arrested sixty times. I also have an older brother addicted to crack cocaine who's been in and out of prison so it was really important for me to tell a story that shows the humanity and the journey of a man getting of our prison and trying to re-acclimate into society. It's apart of our community that we have stereotypes and ideas about but we don't actually know much about it, unless we know someone personally.
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
