Kalpana Chawla Quotes
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.
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Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
