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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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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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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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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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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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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Jesus abides in us and through Him we have the victory!
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The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.
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We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
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What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.
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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.
