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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Moreover, regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age - after a matter of ten or fifteen years - they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile.
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Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?
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Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.
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It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life.
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I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
