Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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I started in the theater world in New York City - and indie films - and I love the feeling of your head coming together and trying to tell a simple story, a small story, and just getting that vibe of storytelling without all the craziness of big budget.

Andre Royo

LoveTogetherSimpleNew YorkCity

In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.

Jose Mourinho

FootballMindGameKnowGamesTry

Technologically, the Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new ISPs or new forms of expanding access.

Jonathan Zittrain

ConnectionsInternetEasyNewExit

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

Dick Van Dyke

HelpGoingJustSomebodyGladCould

I have a beautiful, young wife who sings and dances, so there's a lot of duetting going on at my house.

Dick Van Dyke

BeautifulWifeHouseYoungGoing

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Denis Leary

FreeComedySpeechYouTryBubbles

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

Douglas Conant

WorkLeadershipLeaderTreatYou

I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

Ashley Madekwe

HatePeopleNeedAnythingCostGuy

You got a snaggletooth? Show it off. You have an overbite? Bite some more.

Phoebe Robinson

YouMoreGotShowOffBite

I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function.

Peter Gabriel

GreatIdeasBrainMusiciansYou

When you Google someone's name, it matters to me what shows up. Not the lies, but like, did you change lives? Did you do something while you were here?

Tionne Watkins

ChangeMeNameSomeoneYouGoogle

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere - a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer - can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

Mark Zuckerberg

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