Padma Lakshmi Quotes
I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I love my sleep.
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Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
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I'm a fairly quiet and private person. So I haven't sought publicity.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.
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Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
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I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.
