Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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I have a great office.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
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Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.
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I just don't think I'm equipped to soundtrack the times. There might be someone out there who can do that, but I haven't cracked it.
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There's great affection, tremendous loyalty, but anytime you open up the season, when you walk in the locker room, there is a circle, and my obligation to everyone in that locker room is the circle has to be as strong as possible to give us a chance to win.
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The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I'm doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.
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Frankly, I love 'Scream': I think it's one of the great scary/funny movies.
