Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
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I think that is a really good message, especially for young girls to hear. The fact that someone like me from the western suburbs of Sydney could become an actress in movies who didn't look like a regular actress, and that I can make it I think gives a lot of hope to other girls who are really creative and don't necessarily follow the standard of what some people consider beauty to be.
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I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.
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The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
