Lavrenti Quotes

#1. We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

Saint Ignatius

#2. It seems odd that a story about a gift-the possibility of a new life in a new and prosperous country-begins with a thief, but in some ways this one does.

Kimball Taylor

#3. As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.

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#4. Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

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#5. I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

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#6. You're only a mouse if you let them make you one.

Christina Henry

#7. In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.

Richard McCabe

#8. The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin.

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#9. raise the affections of my hearers as high as I possibly can, provided they are affected with nothing but truth, and with affections that are not disagreeable to the nature of what they are affected with."1

Bob Kauflin

#10. I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.

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#11. I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

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#12. Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad.

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#13. We white people think that we know everything.

H. Rider Haggard

#14. Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by their neighbors.

Victor Hugo