Dilip Shanghvi Quotes
It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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California has been very good to me in terms of the professional arena.
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Country music is the song that speaks to the American condition. It's middle America. Eight out of 10 people. Maybe it's not the No. 1 choice, but they listen to country.
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A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.
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The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.
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I get a lot of letters from people.
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It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.
