103 Quotes by Kumail Nanjiani

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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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    When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.

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    Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.

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    Honestly, I would love to be friends with Fox Mulder on 'The X-Files.' That's almost a little too obvious, but that would be my answer. I'd love to hang out with him.

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    I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

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    The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

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    When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.

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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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    I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

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