Imtiaz Ali Quotes
I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I am really addicted to music.
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
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Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.
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God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.
