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Aasif Mandvi Quotes

When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

Aasif Mandvi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: indian
Birth: March 5, 1966

Topics

Become Talk Write Kid Florida Theme

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

Jodie Foster

Car Me New Car House New Move On

In the guest star situation on a show, it has a feel of a foreign exchange student - you're worrying the night before where you're going to sit for lunch. 'The Big Bang Theory' was like that. I was supposed to only do one episode. What was different was the cast and production staff was so welcoming, even though I was only scheduled for a week.

Melissa Rauch

Lunch Night Feel Week You Situation

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

Anderson Cooper

People Attention Paid Stories Much

I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.

Jean Piaget

Conversation Wrong Aim Right Answers

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

Ron Suskind

Government You Kind Way Become Fact

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

Mo Farah

Father You React Way Imagine Kids

I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar.

Demi Lovato

Never Out Found Bipolar Treatment

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

Chris Bohjalian

Me Voice Important Emotional Clearly

I have a lot to be grateful to L.A. for, but I overstayed my welcome by 28 years. I was only meant to be there for six months.

Christine McVie

Grateful Welcome Meant To Be Years

I was a very passionate basketball player, really enjoyed the sport. I played it my entire life.

Brock Osweiler

Life Basketball Passionate Player

It is important to remember yourself.

Alice Walker

Yourself Remember Important

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It's not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark... other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

Rihanna

Change Light Me Dark Sometimes Like