Anoushka Shankar Quotes

I feel a lot closer to music and my relationship with my instrument than I did as a teenager.

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• Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • More
  • Hollywood
  • Where

• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • World
  • Today
  • Light

• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Energy
  • Morning
  • Practice

• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Me
  • Team

• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Country
  • Problems
  • Solutions

• When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Growing

• Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Work
  • Price
  • Reputation

• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Building
  • Blossom

• Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Nature
  • My Life

• My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Kids
  • Death
  • Dad

• When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Great
  • Men
  • Small

• I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mom
  • Movies
  • Director

• We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Remember
  • Green
  • Big

• I have three young children, and I kind of stopped going to movies in 2006. I go to see some, but I'm a little bit out of touch, and I didn't know who Marion Cotillard was.

  

  James Gray
  • Children

• Your second ducat, like your second million, is never quite as sweet.

  

  William Poundstone
  • Never
  • Sweet
  • Millions

• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Important
  • Power
  • Beautiful

• Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Good
  • Women
  • Design

• Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • World
  • Family
  • True

• I feel a lot closer to music and my relationship with my instrument than I did as a teenager.

  

  Anoushka Shankar
  • Relationship
  • Instrument
  • Closer