Adeel Akhtar Quotes
There has to be more opportunities for Asian or black actors.
Adeel Akhtar
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jackie Kennedy
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
Becky G
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
Taiye Selasi
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
Kate Atkinson
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
Barbara Cook
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
Francine Pascal
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
W. Bruce Cameron
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
Otto Penzler
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
Yakov Smirnoff
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
Yogi Berra
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
Zara Phillips
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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
Zara Larsson
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After 28 years of owning boats, I'm over it.
James H. Clark
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I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.
August Wilson
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Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.
Paul Bowles
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I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.
Mads Mikkelsen
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There has to be more opportunities for Asian or black actors.
Adeel Akhtar