Padma Lakshmi Quotes
The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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Going to church and stuff was just something I did with my mom.
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When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
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The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
