Vidya Balan Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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Publishing is not my world.
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At that time they said I was crazy because I wanted to make a movie that was 14 or 16 hours. But now people do it. There are three-'Hobbit 1,' 'Hobbit 2,' 'Hobbit 3.' Everything I wanted to do is possible to do today.
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No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.
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I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
