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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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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But comedy is like music, it appeals to some people. Some people like Creed, those people are usually pretty stupid. But they probably also like Carrot Top. I would say that they're part of the same ilk.
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I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.
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Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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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.
