Payal Kadakia Quotes
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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When I'm writing the text for a book like 'Little White Rabbit,' I read it aloud, alone, in my studio, again and again and again - because the rhythm has to be exactly right. After I get my manuscript to the point where I think it is perfect, I begin to think about what I want the art to look like.
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I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.
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I just liked the idea of being engaged.
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For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.
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I like to work out every single day. And it's about movement.