Boris Spassky Quotes
When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.
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Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.
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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.
