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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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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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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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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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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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I don't think the people in power realize how detrimental it can be to a way a girl looks at herself if she flips through a magazine and only sees one type of woman.
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I try hard not to repeat myself and not to do material other people are doing. We transcribe every other late-night show to make sure there's no similarity.
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We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.
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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.
