Aziz Ansari Quotes
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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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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I hate competition.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
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End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
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Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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Let's have a moment of silence for all the chubby Asian dudes that are getting 'Gangnam style!' yelled at them by bros around the world.
