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 get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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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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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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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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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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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 never wanted to come off as self-important.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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I introduced myself to then-Lieutenant General Petraeus and told him about my research interests; he gave me his card and offered to put me in touch with other researchers and service members working on the same issues.
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I am proud of the fact that people consider me a style icon.
