Padma Lakshmi Quotes
Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
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I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
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My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
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It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s preciousness on our tiny planet.
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Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.
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Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
