Lakshmi Pratury Quotes
We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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Everything is absurd.
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We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.
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When you are a free agent like I was, it definitely makes a big difference when you know there's stability at the quarterback position.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.
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We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
