Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
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I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Sometimes my faith becomes more sensitive to how people feel, as opposed to what needs to be.
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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.
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Folks have been asking for a place to support the band and get our new 2-song single direct one their phones — so we’ve made the download available on Bandcamp.
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I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
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The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.
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We did a play in the third grade all about Winter not wanting to give over his throne to Spring. That was my first title role, and I took full advantage of it. I felt like there was no one else on that stage but Ms. Spring.
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The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.
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I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.
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The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.
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Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.
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It's just weird that out of nowhere God said, May the three best-looking guys in Hollywood have babies - Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and me. It was bizarre that God said, I want to make the planet more beautiful, and I got the call.
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To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.
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A lot of people know me for my speed and my flexibility. I like to jump, but I'm not really the best jumper. I'm more of a spinner.
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Zombies - obviously they're doing it in a much more expansive way on The Walking Dead - basically, what you used to do is you put a bunch of goo on an actor and have them shamble towards you, and it's a very effective creature. It always has tremendous impact, just that feeling of death coming for you; that's universally accepted.
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We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
