Amruta Khanvilkar Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
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If we're talking about someone creating something new, those rights are fairly well defined (in the United States, at least) under existing copyright law. But then there's often discussion about the rights of people who produce works under work-for-hire arrangements, which can be far more subtle and nuanced.
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I remember being in New Orleans after Katrina hearing people calling, 'Help me,' and wanting to slide down in the seat of my car because it felt like I was invading their suffering. But I also know that our being there gave them a voice.
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I had this perception based on my own frustrations with Washington, but I didn't realize until I launched this campaign how much people are looking for a new generation of leadership and a new approach in Washington.
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People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.
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I paint energy, not the soul.
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I am proud of the fact that people consider me a style icon.
