Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

• You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. Its specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Discipline, Needs, Hours

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Mean, Vampire, Monsters

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thanksgiving, Friday, Wall

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• We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Majority, Stories, Realistic

  "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.

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• I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Crazy, America, Pakistan

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thinking, Feelings, Insecurity

  "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.

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• The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thinking, Punishment, Religion Of Islam

  Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.

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• I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Shy, Public Speaking, Fallen

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing what way works. That's what comedy is: you have a topic and you try to just hit it as many different ways as you can.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Trying

  Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.

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• The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Religious, America, Scary

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  People, Acting, Stage

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.

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  Thinking, Guy, Joy

  Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.

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• My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process. I write everything out, and then the parts I think are funny I put in bold. Then I go perform it. Then the parts that aren't funny, I unbold them.

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  Writing, Thinking, Three

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thinking, Doctors, Would Be

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• I am a very nerdy guy. I understand that it's easier to cast me as a nerdy guy than an action star - although I would love to be an action star!

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Stars, Guy, Action

  "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.

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• I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I'm acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don't always agree with it, but I really need it.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Criticism, Acting, Needs

  Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.

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• I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Meat, Fruit, Carts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It wasn't until I moved to New York that I decided to make a conscious effort to be myself.

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  New York, Effort, Conscious

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• It's not like I listened to music and then stopped. I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Appreciation, Real, Listening

  "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.

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• I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

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  Trying, Stories, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nunca me han gustado los concursos. El más fácil es Wheel Of Fortune, porque sólo tienes que saber palabras y, en general, todo el mundo las sabe.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Games, Wheels, Fortune

  "Actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani answers our 11 questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.

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  New York, Moving, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It really helped to have someone whose taste I really trusted who I knew was really smart and a really good writer. Sometimes I find it hard to judge my own work so it was good to have someone who could look at it. It was like, "Oh, she likes it, then it's good."

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  Smart, Judging, Sometimes

  Fuente: www.rogerebert.com

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• Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  America, Pakistan, Huge

  "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.

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• I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thinking, People, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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