Anoushka Shankar Quotes
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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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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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.
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I want to be open about my condition to show others that they are not alone in dealing with this form of chronic hives. My advice for people with CIU is to talk to their doctor about their condition.
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Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
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‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’
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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
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Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
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There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
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I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
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I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.
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In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.
