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Azim Premji Quotes

When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: indian
Birth: July 24, 1945

Topics

Pressure You Bold Steps Make Faster

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

Home Character Time Food Culture

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

School Me Book High School Out High

Don't make things too complicated. Try to relax, enjoy every moment, get used to everything.

Angelique Kerber

Moment Relax Enjoy Complicated Try

Six months after I moved to L.A., I booked the ABC pilot 'Commander-in-Chief' with Geena Davis. I played her son.

Son Pilot Her Six ABC Moved

Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me - caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they're widely accepted as an essential part of the children's literary canon.

Children Me Growing Up Growing Now

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

Trust Man Will Never Who Himself

I've had over seven thousand pro fights.

Over Seven Thousand Fights Pro Had

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Work Day Book Reading Doing Worth

I tend to treat everyone like equals. That is my downfall, though, because Oprah is Oprah, and Barack is Barack, and you've gotta come in with a certain level of respect and admiration and love while still having that respect. Look at them - these people are, at this point, royalty. I think I get a little too chummy.

Love Respect People Treat Think You

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Success Happiness Day People You

I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.

Anne Graham Lotz

People Fashion Think Say Some People

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

William Shatner

Work Questions Interviewing Prepared

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