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" Read everything you can get your hands on: Programme your mind to read all the time and everywhere - even in the bathroom; skim through the lines printed on the back of shampoo bottles and sanitary napkin packets. "

Twinkle Khanna

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Twinkle Khanna

Life

Son

" My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you get wiser. "

" I am into the candle business, have a home store, The White Window, and interior designing is my primary occupation, though writing now seems to have become better known. "

" When your name is Twinkle, you are a bookworm, and a fat child, then you have to be ready to be made fun of. As a child, I used my fists a lot, but then the tongue seemed like a better option. So I started using words as a sword to jab fun at myself. "

" Eat carbohydrates: All these protein diets may help you twirl prettily in a size-2 dress, but if you want your mind to take a few marvelous leaps, then you have to give it the food it needs. "

" To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless. "

" I seem to be known as much by the moniker 'Mrs Funnybones' as my own name these days. The book was about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. I am glad that India seems to be looking back at me with a grin. "

" I am a bad actress. I know I am. I am realistic. I can't even lie properly; how can you expect me to act? "

" There are 146 countries above us where the men have longer lifespans, and the biggest blow is that even with four wives who don't fast for them, the Arab men outlive our good old Indian dudes. "

" Sometimes I do give in to a scoop of sitaphal ice cream from Naturals or a chocolate chip cookie. "

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Twinkle Khanna

Think

I Am

" If people see anything I do and the way I live my life, there is no ambiguity about me being a feminist. "

" I'm constantly working. I am constantly going to the next thing. "

Twinkle Khanna

Going

I Am

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" My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair. "

" I like to see the world from different levels. Even when I'm making a candle or designing a piece, I like to sit on the floor to polish or make it from scratch. I haven't seen really tough times, but my husband has come up the hard way. He has even seen poverty. "

" I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently from them. I am myself, Twinkle Khanna. I am proud of being the daughter of such illustrious parents, but I would not like to be compared with them time and again. "