Diora Baird Quotes
Most of the time you're playing the crazy girl or the stripper - always the stripper! I mean, how many strippers can I play. I can do a lap dance phenomenally, and that's not a good sign, because I'm not a stripper.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Not having a private life is hard.
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When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
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It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.
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Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.
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Most of the time you're playing the crazy girl or the stripper - always the stripper! I mean, how many strippers can I play. I can do a lap dance phenomenally, and that's not a good sign, because I'm not a stripper.
