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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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I ever tried to write were Godzilla fan fiction when I was in elementary school, complete with elaborate maps of Monster Island made with multiple sheets of typing paper and nearly six feet wide. I kind of wish I still had those.
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Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'
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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.
