Payal Kadakia Quotes
I thought, 'I have ideas. I'm creative.' I just didn't see why I should be pigeon-holing myself in the business world or staying in corporate America when I already knew that I was capable of taking risks.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
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I thought, 'I have ideas. I'm creative.' I just didn't see why I should be pigeon-holing myself in the business world or staying in corporate America when I already knew that I was capable of taking risks.
