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I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.

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Aasif Mandvi
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: March 5
Actor
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Bombay
Aasif Mandviwala
Aasif H. Mandviwala
Aasif Hakim Mandviwala
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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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Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.
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I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad's store.
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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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In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
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Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
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Of course the law's not racist.
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When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
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Comedy can reach many more people than, say, a serious lecture on the topic. And comedy might just be the access point to reach people who want to be entertained and also learn something.
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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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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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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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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?
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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.
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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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If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
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When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.
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This was in the '70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing and bullying and racism that really probably shaped me in some way in terms of, like, wanting to get out of there.
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There's this existential crisis in America and in the West of, like - who am I? - based on this searching for individual fulfillment, which you don't necessarily have in the East in the same way because you're kind of told what to do. I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm just saying that's just, like, the reality.
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You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, Gunga Din has come back.
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