Imtiaz Ali Quotes
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I remember how to be a person by being around them.
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I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.
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Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.
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I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
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Sure, I travel. I went to Washington to negotiate a $1 billion prepayment to Mexico on its oil revenues to help it out of its financial crisis.
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I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.
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'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.
