Tina Desai Quotes

Everyone goes on about how Bombay is so similar to New York, so I had see what the big deal was. The bustling crowds are the same, but it's a lot quieter, it's a lot cleaner, and it's not humid. I think the energy is very similar to Bombay.

Tina Desai

• New York City
• Bombay

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• Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Today
  • Freedom

• Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • True
  • Consciousness
  • Access

• Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

  

  George Eliot
  • Horses
  • Leisure
  • Afternoons

• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Speech
  • Angels
  • Music Is

• I've argued this with a lot of people in my life. When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day. Ask anyone who has been on a team with me who shoots the most. Go back to Seattle and Milwaukee and ask them. The answer is me -- not because it's a competition, but because that's how I prepare.

  

  Ray Allen
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Team

• Rid self of suspicions by contemplating love.

  

  Aelred of Rievaulx
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Rid

• It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person.

  

  Bob Gill
  • House
  • Person

• Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul, in fact, around the reader.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Important
  • Facts
  • Mood

• When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

  

  Steve Jurvetson
  • Burned
  • Genome

• I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part.

  

  Chris D'Elia
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

  

  Bill Skarsgard
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

  

  John Fahey
  • Experience

• Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

  

  Adam Ross
  • People
  • Time

• The opulence and grandeur of a lot of period drama really helps you get into character and appreciate the luxury of good quality. If you're fashion-minded in any way, you can't help but be incredibly inspired and apply elements to your own style.

  

  Annabelle Wallis
  • Good
  • Character
  • Help

• Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Up
  • Black
  • Environment

• In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for his country. Yeah, apparently he misunderstood the phrase, 'Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Country
  • Interview
  • Allegiance

• Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Comedic

• I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Movies
  • Moved
  • Editing

• When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'

  

  Raza Jaffrey
  • Dreams
  • Number
  • Musicals

• Everyone goes on about how Bombay is so similar to New York, so I had see what the big deal was. The bustling crowds are the same, but it's a lot quieter, it's a lot cleaner, and it's not humid. I think the energy is very similar to Bombay.

  

  Tina Desai
  • New York City
  • Bombay