Archie Panjabi Quotes

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

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• As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Love
  • Today

• After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Truth
  • Parents

• When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • School
  • Power
  • High

• I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Choose

• To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Brother

• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Parents

• I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Black
  • City
  • Water

• A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Home
  • Guy
  • Parents

• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Parents
  • Faith
  • Religious

• Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • Parents
  • Purpose

• When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Time
  • Good
  • Parents

• I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Sister

• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Serious

• My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Comedy
  • Come
  • Studies

• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Parents

• My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Life
  • Parents

• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Money
  • Never
  • Goal

• It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

  

  Bill Bradley
  • Success
  • Path
  • Ambition

• My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Power
  • Parents
  • Teacher

• I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.

  

  David Wenham
  • School
  • House
  • Parents

• I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Life
  • Really
  • Have

• Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Parents
  • Ambition