Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes

Inherently, I have a social conscience which my late father inculcated in me. He was not exactly a very wealthy man, but he was very concerned about the underprivileged, about the people who didn't have equal opportunities.

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• You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

  

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• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  

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• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

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• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

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• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

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• At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

  

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• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  

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• I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

  

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• Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

  

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• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

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• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

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• The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.

  

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• Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

  

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• The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

  

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• As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

  

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• In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

  

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• Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

  

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• Take you me for a sponge?

  

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• Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

  

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• I have a phrase I say: 'What the damn?' It's my favorite. It just came to me one day.

  

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• The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

  

  Adam Rickitt

• Inherently, I have a social conscience which my late father inculcated in me. He was not exactly a very wealthy man, but he was very concerned about the underprivileged, about the people who didn't have equal opportunities.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • People
  • Father