Imtiaz Ali Quotes
I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
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How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
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I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.
