Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

I love visual art. I painted for many years when I was younger. I have studied modern/contemporary Indian art a bit and am very impressed with the talent in India.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

Jodhi May

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I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

Jeffrey Wright

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What's that show? 'TMZ'? They stand there and say, 'I've got this on this person.' The focus on celebrities can be detrimental because people could be thinking of other things, but it's a part of the culture and it's what sells.

Andre Leon Talley

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I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.

Mehmet Oz

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I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

Jeffrey Combs

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I don't want The Flash to become a vigilante. I don't want him to abuse the power.

John Wesley Shipp

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So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

Stephen Cambone

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The best way to create emotional or spiritual distance between me and another person is for them to come up to me and go, 'yaassssss.'

Trixie Mattel

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There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

Tom Stoppard

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I grew up listening to a lot of early '90s hip-hop. I had the debut Wu-Tang album, Biggie, Snoop, that kind of stuff. Hieroglyphics, the Gravediggaz. I remember D.O.C.'s 'The Portrait of a Masterpiece' was something that had a big influence on me.

Riz Ahmed

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Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.

Brian K. Vaughan

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Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

Bryan Singer

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