Persis Khambatta Quotes
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
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I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum.
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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
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Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
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I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
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Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.
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In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.
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When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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Supply and demand constantly determine the prices of commodities; never balance, or only coincidentally; but the cost of production, for its part, determines the oscillations of supply and demand.
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The being which has absolute existence, which has never been and will never be without existence, is not in need of an agent.
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We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.
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It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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Gene Roddenberry was a genius.
