Anita Moorjani Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I would like to direct.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done anything like that in my life. I was not brought up with the blues or anything like that, and I really, really enjoyed it.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.
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It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.
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Love yourself like your life depends on it, because it does.
