Persis Khambatta Quotes

I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.

Persis Khambatta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: October 2, 1950 - August 18, 1998

Topics

LoveMeThinkThoughtShortAmerica

Cities and regions change. It doesn't happen overnight, but diversifying your economy is the only real route.

Jim Gray

ChangeEconomyRealHappenOvernight

The women are so strong in my family.

Andrea Navedo

FamilyWomenStrongWomen Are

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

Andrew Garfield

ParentsMeGuitarWednesdayTwoUp

Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.

Michael Hayden

TruthPoliticsIntelligenceCriticism

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

Alva Noto

PictureYouCreateKnowWayOver

There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

ColdThinkKindOutNormalCancer

I'm such a Shangela fan. I think she exemplifies 'Drag Race' greatness. She's like the Tiffany 'New York' Pollard of 'Drag Race.' She's like a patron saint of reality TV.

Trixie Mattel

GreatnessNew YorkThinkRealityNew

I have been in the business for 62 years. It's a match made in heaven.

Ronnie Corbett

BusinessHeavenYearsBeenMade

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Mary Szybist

LovePoetryMeInterestingFormal

As my YouTube following grew, I was soon earning as much from advertising revenue as from waiting tables, so I quit my job. My boss thought I was crazy, which just made me more determined. In 2012, four years and 200 videos later, my channel was so successful that Google offered me $1 million to create 20 hours of content.

Michelle Phan

JobBossWaitingMeCrazyThought

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

Lukas Haas

TeenMeDoneNeverDifferentMovie

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.

Judah Friedlander

FunFamousSometimesNeverAnnoying

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