Deepika Padukone Quotes
My character in 'Cocktail' was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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Women are sacred.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people - civil society - actually rose up and said, "This is ridiculous: we have our soap-selling soap operas, cigarette-sponsored news broadcast; we have our rigged quiz shows - let's put some checks and balances here."
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I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose - I think everyone should carry it.
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I learned so much from 'Iron Chef' about ingredients, about the courage to put yourself out there.
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My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.
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I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.
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My character in 'Cocktail' was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before.
