A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Novels are longer than life.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.
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The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
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I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.
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To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
