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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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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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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Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?…I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves 'why?'. Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix.
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The endearing elegance of female friendship.
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It's part of my life to feel like a criminal, to have eyes in my back and see if I'm being followed. It's a feeling that comes from street juggling because I have been arrested so many times.
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I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still hated high school. It's just a rough, rough period in one's life.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
