Baba Kalyani Quotes
I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
Quotes to Explore
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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At every sound check, I try to practice on the stage that we're gonna play on that night, 'cause every stage is different. Whether it's concrete or whether it's plywood or whether it's Plexiglas, it all requires different things. You can't dance on concrete as well as you can dance on Plexiglas.
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We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.
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I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
