Pardis Sabeti Quotes
The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that never works. Every time that happens, I never write a hit song.
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The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
