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.
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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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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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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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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 people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.
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If you don't optimize for the consumer on the Internet, you're dead.
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My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.
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But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.
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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
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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.
