Deepa Mehta Quotes
When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become ascetic or live a life that is completely deprived of emotional or social or cultural sustenance, I was really shocked.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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I just wanna be a good artist.
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I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
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I think life is a chain of events.
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Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
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We're taught as a society what is acceptable for women to look like and what's not. And where fat should be and shouldn't. And I think it's important to sometimes reprogram ourselves and recondition ourselves to not have so much negativity toward our own bodies.
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I recently purchased an iPad 2 because I didn't want to wait for the iPad 3 and iPad 4.
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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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There was so much emotional response to 'Dogfight.' You just heard the audience: They were so horrified. They were sobbing. They were joyful at times.
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When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become ascetic or live a life that is completely deprived of emotional or social or cultural sustenance, I was really shocked.
