Zubin Mehta Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.
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I'm not embarrassed to be in advertising. But I'm embarrassed by a lot of advertising.
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If you can sing together, you can live together.
