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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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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I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.
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The fact is that more and more people are developing a sensitivity to gluten, without necessarily being allergic to it.
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Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.
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For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the deception, to the duplicity. It is the structure of an affair - not the sexual or emotional behavior or what people actually are doing.
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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.
