Nandita Das Quotes
The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
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I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.
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I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.
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We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do.
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'They follow the creed of the Bright: that which disturbs the order of society must be eliminated, regardless of whether it caused the disturbance.' She rolled her eyes. 'You’d think they’d get tired of parroting Itempas and start thinking for themselves after two thousand years.'
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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.
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When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did - a poet writer did everything all at once. I would write poetry, and while writing poetry I would also write work in the world - if I could get into the world.
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The credibility has begun to inure in the institution. Keeping inflation low and stable is an important precondition for a healthy and sustained economic growth.
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I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.
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The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
