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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As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.
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It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.
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I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.
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I did go to an MFA program, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. For me, it worked perfectly. It was a small program. They only take five fiction writers a year, and they fund all of us - you don't go into debt to get an MFA. It's not like getting an MBA - you're not going to buy yourself out.
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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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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.
