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Adeel Akhtar Quotes

Mum snuck me into speech and drama classes and into the National Youth Theatre and said I was going on a summer camp if Dad asked.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: british
Birth: September 18, 1980

Topics

Me Youth Theatre Speech Drama Said

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

Positive Fun World Doing Mission

For interns at 'The Weekly Standard' or 'National Review,' where the martial instinct finds its most insistent voice, what Robert Kagan calls the military 'career path' is not widely seen as a plausible future. Pulling a trigger is what Jose, Tyrone, and Bubba do, not early admission students at the better private universities.

John Gregory Dunne

Future Path Voice Better Early Seen

Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.

You Celebrity Star Just Movie Star

The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From there, the modern Indian rights movement started, and it was a very hard fight, with a lot of stuff going against them.

John Ralston Saul

Fight People Fighting Back Defeated

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.

Robert T. Bakker

Small Many Jobs Held Illustrator

I don't like 'comedy,' I like 'life,' which has everything in it.

Miriam Margolyes

Life Comedy Everything Like Which

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

Father Mother Happiness Purpose Key

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

Think Hot Definitely

I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.

Myself People Dinner Someone Find

As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.

Care Long Keep Cast Getting

My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.

Time Stress Law Doing Enough Rome

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

Brooks Robinson

Book Now Three Years Fifty Just

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