Adeel Akhtar Quotes
The stuff I like watching is the stuff that leaves you with a lot of questions when it's finished.
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films.
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My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.
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If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.
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The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.
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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
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The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.
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The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team.
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What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
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I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.
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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
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The stuff I like watching is the stuff that leaves you with a lot of questions when it's finished.
