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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My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.
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Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me
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I'm a bit of a goofball; I don't have a lot of censors and I don't have a lot boundaries and I'm trying to remember that the world is watching.
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If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
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We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.
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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.
