Nayantara Sahgal Quotes

What was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it?

Nayantara Sahgal

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• Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Change
  • Beginning

• Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Name

• If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Film

• I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Black
  • Change
  • Feel

• The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Between

• All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Place
  • Caring
  • Surroundings

• Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Enthusiasm

• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Gold
  • Trade
  • Self-Sufficient

• The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • World
  • Outcome

• Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Family
  • Together
  • Changes

• I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Night
  • Day

• My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Me
  • Never

• There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Science

• I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Future
  • Tomorrow

• After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Bored

• I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Waiting
  • Films
  • Bigger

• I am mean; I'm nasty at times. I don't feel like talking to people at times. When I am in a bad mood and have had a really awful day, don't come in my face because I am not tolerant and I am not a goddess; I can't handle it after a point. I am going to get up, and I am going to scream, and I am going to say bad things to you.

  

  Kajol
  • Mood
  • Nasty
  • Goddess

• I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Piano
  • Tour

• I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

  

  Dawn Angelique
  • School
  • Mother
  • Everything

• Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Spirit
  • Level
  • Courageous

• I just want to continue adding walls to my craft as an artist and business man. I never want to cap off, I never want to seal it. I just want to keep adding walls and keep on going as high as it can go, but I'm never gonna be boxed in, can't. That's when you lose because when you box yourself in, you know you get comfortable, you start getting complacent. I can't be like that.

  

  Eskeerdo
  • Artist
  • Lose
  • Businessman

• What was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it?

  

  Nayantara Sahgal
  • Artist
  • Need
  • Level