Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes
There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
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I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.
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Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
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My next baby will be my new record.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
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I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.
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Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him. In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of state repression makes a mockery of the rule of law.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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I think education is something that is very important no matter what you are doing. It makes you feel secure, independent, and helps you build confidence in yourself. It grooms your whole personality. So if it starts from the basic level; if the basic education that a girl and a boy receive is the same, I think a lot will change.
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Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.
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It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
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There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!
