Vandana Shiva Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.
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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
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Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.
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Je ne dois qu'à moi seul toute ma renommée.
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I want to be read, and I certainly want to sell, but I also see my father's eye from Heaven: 'Always write quality. It doesn't matter if you sell; if it's good, it's good - if you capture the complexity of life.'
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In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
