Ashwin Sanghi Quotes
My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.
Quotes to Explore
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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'Here's my man! It doesn't have to stay out and party with his guys!' 'Here, let me see that...It doesn't seem to be able to pick up the fucking check, does it?'
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Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.
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In an imperfect world, full of imperfect leaders, there are countless statues that may not live up to our American values.
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Profiting from being in the minority leads to interesting paradoxes. Rather diabolically, if all traders use the same set of rules, they will end up doing the same thing at the same time and cannot therefore be in the minority.
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We need to build on what we know works - local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, timely interventions in schools to support those at risk of failing, and partnerships between schools to help each one to improve.
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My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.
