The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
I like things to happen organically.
I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.
Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'
I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know what they are about.
I would be lying if I said no. I have an idea for 'Pa. Pandi 2', but I don't know when it will happen or if it will happen at all.
There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.
Pep Guardiola sees things before they happen, and that's an advantage - a massive plus.
And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.
Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.
You know in a playoff atmosphere anything can happen.
After I was cast in the acclaimed film 'Khuda Ke Liye,' I thought it would open up film avenues for me in Pakistan and, maybe, even internationally. When that didn't happen, I decided to use TV as a means of polishing my craft.
I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.
It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.
I very much doubt that it could happen again that any manager would do 20 years with a top Premiership club.
Crimes happen, but some are preventable.
Surge pricing only kicks in in order to maximize the number of trips that happen and therefore reduce the number of people that are stranded.
