Kaytranada Quotes
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.
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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
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In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were invisible in the high-testosterone arenas of politics, big business, and sports. On television and in the movies, they were worse than invisible. They were embarrassing. We were embarrassing.
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Deep down, you know what you want, and you should go for it.
