Raashi Khanna Quotes
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.
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I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
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I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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Kindness is incredibly sexy.
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When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
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Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
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I've always had great faith in people.
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Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
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My Hyderabad home is an extension to my family's Delhi residence.
