Twinkle Khanna Quotes
My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a writer someday. My father would nag me, but I didn't write a word till he passed away. I wish he could see me now.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.
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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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Return good for good; return evil with justice.
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I'm half-Chinese and half-Caucasian. My grandparents came here from China. My father was born in New Jersey.
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Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.
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My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a writer someday. My father would nag me, but I didn't write a word till he passed away. I wish he could see me now.
