P. Chidambaram Quotes
When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
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Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.
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I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
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I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
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I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
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The variety of polyprenol phosphate sugars may turn out to be as large as that of sugar nucleotides.
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The one thing that even my staunchest opponents will admit is I'm a straight shooter and that I'm a man of my word.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do.
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I found myself in too much of a box situation.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
