Padma Lakshmi Quotes

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

Padma Lakshmi

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• In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

  

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• At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.

  

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• I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

  

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• I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.

  

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• Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.

  

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• All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

  

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• The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

  

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• Life is like an analogy.

  

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• Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

  

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• I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.

  

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• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

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• Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.

  

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• We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.

  

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• I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

  

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• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

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• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

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• I guess you could say I took the hard route. That doesn't work for everybody, but it's worked out all right for me.

  

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• I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

  

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• The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

  

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  • People
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• When we want to say something negative to somebody we say, 'Aww, you're so crazy.'

  

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• For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Me