Deepa Mehta Quotes
It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.Deepa Mehta
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I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
Ted Deutch -
I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
Kate Middleton -
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
W. H. Auden -
DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
Adam Cohen -
Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Ovid -
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
Carl Hiaasen -
I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
Najib Razak -
Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
Tasha Smith -
I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
Ziyi Zhang -
No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.
Pat Buchanan
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Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.
Walter O'Brien -
And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
Sally Kellerman -
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Irwin Shaw -
In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
Jack Canfield -
It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.
Edmund White
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Instead of describing ADD as an inability to concentrate, this model presents it as the ability to concentrate on everything. The world always is alive and ripe with sources of interest.
Edward Hallowell -
If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.
S. N. Goenka -
Live the rest of your life in possibility.
Benjamin Zander -
Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
Abbi Jacobson -
It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.
Deepa Mehta