Nayantara Sahgal Quotes
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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My best friend is my husband.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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You can wear a beautiful black dress that you've maybe had for years, but if you wear a fun shoe, you can completely change it. Wear something different, something sexy, something strappy, or something with pom poms.
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The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.
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If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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This is near enough true bliss.
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Truth is strong medicine. It should be prescribed with great care.
