Priscilla Chan Quotes
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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BJP is the mothership of violence.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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You put high heels on and you change.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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I love science fiction.
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I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.
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You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
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Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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When I joined Time Inc., one of the things that was important to me was ensuring that our content is where consumers want to read it. The Apple newsstand is an important place where a lot of consumers are. And Apple is really becoming a good partner to publishers. We are confident we can deliver a experience for our readers that 's really good.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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I wouldn't want to be someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things: you can't leave the bathroom door open... you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch.
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I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.
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I admire Governor Blagojevich's unbending commitment to giving every person in Illinois access to health care.
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Unless I'm asked to dress up in a costume, TV shows prefer a clean, modern look, so I've developed a wardrobe full of plain, bright colours. If it's an outdoors job, I just wear big jumpers.
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There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?
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As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.
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I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.
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Whatever you want to do, do it now.
