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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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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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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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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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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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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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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If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
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When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.
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Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal.
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It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.
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My Hyderabad home is an extension to my family's Delhi residence.
