Kiran Ahluwalia Quotes
When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
Yasmine Al Masri
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
Idries Shah
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
Forest Whitaker
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
Sam Graves
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
Natalie du Toit
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
Maggie Rowe
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
Yehuda Berg
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
Adam Clarke
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
Natalie Babbitt
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
Oriana Fallaci
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
Dan Webster
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
Gay Talese
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
Ralph Merkle
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg
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The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I think what I most admired about my father was his extraordinary courage. He had such energy to pursue whatever he wanted, and he really didn't care what others thought.
Claude Picasso
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there are no roads in all Bohemia !
Gelett Burgess
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
Gabriel Byrne
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When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it.
Kiran Ahluwalia