Anoushka Shankar Quotes
“I have an adult perspective now about getting to do something I love for a living.”
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
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People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
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We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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The life of an editor may seem all glam all the time, but there's nothing like schlepping through the city during a torrential downpour to put things in perspective.
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You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.
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There was no woodsy fragrance blowing through my room, and the snail, especially while it lived in the pot of violets, must have been surprised by the kaleidoscope of unfamiliar smells, the scent of humans, human food, tea, soap, paper, and ink.
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“I have an adult perspective now about getting to do something I love for a living.”
