Amruta Khanvilkar Quotes
I have always admired Meghna Gulzar's work, and getting to work with her and the Dharma Productions is like a dream come true.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
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I loved music and dance, and that was exciting to me.
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In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.
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That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them.
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It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.
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I have always admired Meghna Gulzar's work, and getting to work with her and the Dharma Productions is like a dream come true.
