Twinkle Khanna Quotes
'Barsaat' was a wonderful experience, but it took a long time in the making, and that got very tedious.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
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The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness to undertake a risky Apollo-style programme. If Americans or Europeans venture to the moon and beyond, this will have to be in a very different style and with different motives.
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Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to see the humor in an overweight negro woman with dreadlocks, no eyebrows, and is named after a childish term for flatulence.
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Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.
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I'd love to be able to draw or play guitar or dance. All three at the same time - that's the talent for me.
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'Barsaat' was a wonderful experience, but it took a long time in the making, and that got very tedious.
