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My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child. ”
In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits. ”
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words. ”
The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations. ”
The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as a child; always wanting to meet a good old country boy and having someone to love as much as I love my husband Roland and having a little boy that is a mixture of the both of us. ”
Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot. ”
In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.' ”
When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know? ”
I'm just happy to be part of the family, the decathlon family. ”
I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it. ”