Urvashi Vaid Quotes
We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.
Quotes to Explore
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It's better to do a film that works.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
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I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know why he wouldn't release his records.
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I'm incredibly tenacious, but I also try so hard in my work to really listen to people and address their point of view. In the end, I always remember who I'm an advocate for.
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I believe things that happen in the ANC family must be handled there.
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At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry's tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left. I thought of every detail and afterwards I felt better. Hellfire and brimstone have never appealed to me and I admit I become easily confused thinking of right and wrong. But I do understand kindness.
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We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.
