Waris Ahluwalia Quotes
People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.
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Nothing wrong with pop!
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I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This is going to be a novelty for them.' Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up.
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There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.
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I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
