Padma Lakshmi Quotes
Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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I dress for men.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
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I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.
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Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.
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An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
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Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.
