Preity Zinta Quotes
As an actress, I never went to film school, and I think if I had gone to film school, I would have started with a great advantage. If you have a strong intent to do anything in life, you can do it, but it always helps to have formal training.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
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I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there.
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The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
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I play a lot of nerdy voices.
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As an actress, I never went to film school, and I think if I had gone to film school, I would have started with a great advantage. If you have a strong intent to do anything in life, you can do it, but it always helps to have formal training.
