Karan Mahajan Quotes
If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact that it's a lost love, or something, is why I keep thinking about it obsessively.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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That's something that I think the best artists retain - the ability to invite you into their small, intimate inner space, and let that be what radiates.
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You must figure out where the money is coming from. Money won't come find you. There are a ton of genius technologists in the blockchain space, but the harder part is figuring out how to make money.
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Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house.
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I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.
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If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact that it's a lost love, or something, is why I keep thinking about it obsessively.
