Talulah Riley Quotes
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.
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Then people ask me if I'm worried about the effects of global warming on my kids. Well, obviously I love my kids and I want them to live to be a 100. So that's another 1.8 degrees. My kids’ kids? Three point six. I'll just tell them we moved to Phoenix.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
