Kalpana Chawla Quotes
It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.
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Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
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It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
