Priyanka Chopra Quotes
I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown. I want to be able to play a Spanish girl some day or a Mexican girl and learn the language. That's what actors do: we act.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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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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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
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I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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When you work crazy TV hours, you got to have a good sense of humor.
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I understand the bad rap that 3-D is getting because the conversions are crappy and because the films aren't designed for 3-D. It's a completely different medium.
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I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.
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A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
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I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown. I want to be able to play a Spanish girl some day or a Mexican girl and learn the language. That's what actors do: we act.
