Waris Ahluwalia Quotes
Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
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We want you to pay attention.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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Full Frame is where I had the first showing of my first film, 'Street Fight.' I have a fond memory of pacing around outside the theater, nervously trying to keep from throwing up. It's a magical festival, well curated, with a warm and generous spirit.
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The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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I started my career with television, and whatever work I did was keeping the content as my topmost priority. Same goes with the movies: I never grabbed any work!
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A world-changing vision often necessitates a profound simplicity in the user experience.
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Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.
