Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

When I was volunteering with Hurricane Katrina refugees in Houston in 2005, I first started thinking about the whole phenomenon of grace under pressure.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.

Megan Smith

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

May Sarton

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Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

John Lutz

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You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing.

Robert Kocharian

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There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

Soichiro Honda

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All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything.

Stellan Skarsgard

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'Carnival Row' is us looking at the stranger; 'The Curiosity' is the stranger looking at us.

Travis Beacham

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I can sit down at a piano or with a guitar and just chug away for hours and be perfectly content with whatever comes out. But when it comes to something that somebody else is going to listen to, then I do feel a great deal of pressure to do something that's exceptional, at least in what I consider to be at the limits of what I can do.

Tom Scholz

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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Robert Anton Wilson

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Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

Michael Moore

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I try to work out, time permitting, wherever I am.

Chesley Sullenberger

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This isn't a Republican issue. This isn't a Democrat issue. This is something that both parties and people around the country have agreed to. They don't want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States.

Cory Gardner

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