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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When I did 'Percy Jackson,' people told me, 'Oh, you're going to be so famous... you're not going to be able to walk down the street... it's going to be huge,' and it wasn't - although it was big for my career.
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The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.
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The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.
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My dream is to get gold medal both in the world championship and the Olympics.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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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.
