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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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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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.
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I have a dog. He cuddles with me all night, so I don't really need a boyfriend.
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I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.
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So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.
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'Barsaat' was a wonderful experience, but it took a long time in the making, and that got very tedious.
