Ashwin Sanghi Quotes
I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.
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I'm not a party person.
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I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.
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I can count my friends on one hand.
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I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.
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I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
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We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.
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Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Landsend in Mumbai. It was my 100th visit recently, which means I have spent more than 400 days in that hotel, and that is a lot more than I have spent with my family.
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I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.
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I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.
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I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.
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America's trying to do the best for its veterans.
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Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
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As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.
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We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?
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Man has been adjudged a social animal.
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After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
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I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.
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In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
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Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history.
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... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.
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I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.
