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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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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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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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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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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Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
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Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.
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We've unveiled the most comprehensive reform budget people have seen in a generation.
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If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.
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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.
