Ashwin Sanghi Quotes
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre is all about, he's a good man, he's this, he's that, but like I tell Derek Jeter, that's you. It's one thing that they treat you a certain way; you don't feel what other people feel.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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But you know, I'm just not a quitter.
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My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.
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Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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For me, Google was the coolest place. It was the coolest place. People there were so smart. And they were all doing these really interesting things. I just felt lucky to be part of it even in a small way.
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Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.
