Pooja Hegde Quotes
I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can't believe that I'm an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.
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I have met friends that I will stay connected to for the rest of my life.
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When we first came in October, there would be one other group that we would recognize from our school. Now there's at least six.
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The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms.
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I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can't believe that I'm an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.
