Lakshmi Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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For me, family has always come first.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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The characteristic of the really great writer is the ability of his mind to to suddenly leap beyond his ordinary human values, into sudden perception of universal values.
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I listen to myself, I listen to my body, my mind; I follow my heart.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.
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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
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Let your actions be ruled by your heart, not by your mind
