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I’m Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

Aasif Mandvi

You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, “Gunga Din” has come back.
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Back Come England Pub Samosa Today
An artist’s job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It’s not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
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Answer Artist Face Front Hold Job Mirror Simply
When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like – America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.
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America Decide Family Land Like Opportunity Seem Sort
I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.
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Better Gospel Know Mark Quran
It’s an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.
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Analyze Away Going Try Trying Worry
I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.
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African American Coming Guy Television Thinking
The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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Artist Control Impact Over Thinking Work
I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.
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America Culture Dort Fantasized Grew Moving
So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
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America Complete Idea Unrealistic Wanted
I was a fan of “The Daily Show” I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.
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Daily Down Fan Figure Imagine Impression Show Watch
In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism – this idea of my own personal fulfillment.
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America Essential Idea Ideas Individual Kind Own West
I was born in India – but never really lived there.
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Born India Live Really
From my parent’s generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It’s about creating family. It’s about creating offspring.
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Creating Generation Idea Ideas Marriage Parent Romantic Love
Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.
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Court Doe Fraud Past Racism Supreme Voter
If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Believe Levels Prophet Muhammad
I’m not really a food connoisseur.
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Connoisseur Food Really

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