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Aasif Mandvi

You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world – your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?
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I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.
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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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For anybody who’s ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.
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Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food… they’ve never even tasted it!
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Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the “Daily Show”, she was like no – there is no – the only way you’ll learn this job is by doing this job.
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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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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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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you’re reaching people.
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Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.
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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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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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I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.
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Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.
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If people invited Muslims into their home every week by way of a TV show would go a long way to making people feel comfortable with Muslims and countering misconceptions about who we are. Plus, of course, that will make it easier for us to impose sharia law across America.
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