Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.

Ashwin Sanghi

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• There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Character
  • Change
  • Myself

• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• 'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Care
  • Story

• I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Way
  • Listening
  • Blow

• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Time
  • School
  • Design

• Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Different
  • Creative
  • Now

• I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Remember
  • Picture
  • Window

• For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.'

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Like
  • Television
  • Really

• I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Scandal,' but it's fun to just go into someone's world for eight days and do your thing, and then leave.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • World
  • Fun
  • Days

• Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Money
  • Financial

• I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Destiny
  • Geography

• You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure it's a good fit... they tend to break you.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Know
  • Saying

• The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Mechanical

• There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Kids
  • Going
  • Chemistry

• I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Said
  • Intelligent
  • Speech

• There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Time
  • Family
  • Job

• When I first moved to New York in 2006, I spent most of my time hanging out at and going to shows at a punk house in Crown Heights called The Fort where, amongst many roommates, my friend Johnny lived. Johnny loves The Germs, the legendary L.A. punk band fronted by the late, great Darby Crash.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Time
  • Great
  • House

• The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

  

  Jeff Hawkins

• Probably the greatest thing working in games is watching someone enjoy your game and to think, "Wow I had a part in giving someone that enjoyment".

  

  Eugene Jarvis
  • Giving
  • Enjoy
  • Enjoyment

• Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Music

• If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Minds
  • Imagined
  • Repeats

• If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi