Gurinder Chadha Quotes

If I'm in a gathering of filmmakers, I'm first and foremost a British Indian; if I'm in a gathering of British Indians, I'm a woman director. There are so many sides to who I am that I change all the time.

Gurinder Chadha

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The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

Joe Sakic

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He who would search for pearls must dive below.

John Dryden

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When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia.

Jeff Kinney

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We know that, immediately after 9/11, the CIA set up a program to collaborate with 80 foreign countries to varying degrees. The CIA also started funding other intelligence services in order to use them as proxies. We also know that some of these collaborations were kept off the record; supposedly, there is no paper trail.

Trevor Paglen

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You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

Robin Yount

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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Rudyard Kipling

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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Martin Scorsese

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I felt like, 'How do I fit in'? I'm battling. But then I never fit in!'... I thank God for somebody like Pharrell who stayed in my ear. For him, at that time, 'Happy' was everywhere; he didn't have to share anything with me.

Missy Elliott

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The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.

Josh Klinghoffer

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Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

Johnny Depp

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I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

Douglas Kirkland

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I remember going to London with my father in 1968 to see '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I just soaked in that movie. To me, that was real; it was going to happen.

Brian Binnie

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