Parvesh Cheena Quotes
When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
