Vikas Swarup Quotes

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

Vikas Swarup

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I used to have this illusion that time and remote areas prepare you for the world. Our moms used to think that kind of thing. Well, it doesn't prepare you for the world at all!

Jim Harrison

TimeWorldThinkYouIllusionKind

I announced to my mother one day when I was 8 that I wanted to be a serious actress.

Meredith Salenger

MotherDaySeriousOne DayActress

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Totie Fields

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I want to be the Denzel of acting and the Michael Jackson of music.

Trevor Jackson

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I've always been physical. I loved sports growing up. I was never specifically a dancer or anything like that.

Rob McClure

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I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

Mat Kearney

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'The Chosen,' if you recall, was based on the Chaim Potok novel and featured Robbie Benson's persuasive performance as a Hasidic Jew.

Lisa Lutz

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One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.

Josh Turner

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I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'

Jason Katims

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When we make these movies, you sign up for an experience. It's not just, 'Action! Cut!' There's not that safety in it. It's kind of a dangerous place to be. I mean, it is safe, but it gets personal. It's no longer about saying the lines. It's about really having an experience.

Derek Cianfrance

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But out of limitations comes creativity.

Debbie Allen

CreativityOutLimitations

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

Christopher Walken

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