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 couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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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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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
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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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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
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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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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm not sure what it was about to be honest, I think it was probably just something along the lines of teen angst.
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Truth is strong medicine. It should be prescribed with great care.
