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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I will either be famous or infamous.
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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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Now that I know what goes into making a pilot, keeping it on the air, and keeping your fans, I'm at a point now where I do a pilot and just hope for the best. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.
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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 think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.
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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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I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.
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I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
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Middle-income living standards, and poverty for that matter, are best addressed through employment growth. By maintaining low inflation and low expectations of inflation, you can create new employment.
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I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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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.
