Twinkle Khanna Quotes
I was born into the limelight. So, my biggest achievement, which I worked hard for, is to stay normal.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
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It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
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So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.
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A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.
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I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.
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We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.
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All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.
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I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.
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Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
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It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
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We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.
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This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there was spoken word; and people left feeling so inspired and so energised. We have to get ourselves out of this syndrome of trauma and being re-traumatised. Art releases this energy. It exposes us to wonder again, and magic again, and ambiguity - all the things we need to really keep going and fighting and resisting in these times.
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I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.
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We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
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I was born into the limelight. So, my biggest achievement, which I worked hard for, is to stay normal.
