Vidya Balan Quotes
The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
