Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.
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Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.
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Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.
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Design, art, and science are all a melange.
