Indira Gandhi Quotes
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.
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As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
