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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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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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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If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
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The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.
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Be a member of the human race. Love somebody. Change the world.
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We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
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I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.
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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.
