Ali Fazal Quotes
I didn't know I had a fan base on the other side of the border. I thought that since actor Ali Zafar is from Pakistan, the fans might have mistaken me for him. Eventually, I realised that they have liked my work, and that feeling sunk in.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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New York is my home.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
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I have been a little lucky to get work. I know there are people who struggle a lot to get a film; I believe a lot in destiny. Things have fallen into place for me.
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What almost halved the support for the Labour Party was the feeling that it has lost its traditional common sense and its humanity to a new breed of sectarian extremism.
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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
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Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.
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I didn't know I had a fan base on the other side of the border. I thought that since actor Ali Zafar is from Pakistan, the fans might have mistaken me for him. Eventually, I realised that they have liked my work, and that feeling sunk in.
