Waris Ahluwalia Quotes
I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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I never dread going back to Congress.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
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In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
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The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
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Went to the new Church both morning and afternoon, and read service in the afternoon. I got through it all with great success, till I came to read out the first verse of the hymn before the sermon, where the two words ‘strife strengthened,’ coming together, were too much for me, and I had to leave the verse unfinished.
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I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you're alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.
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I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators.
