Jean Henri Fabre Quotes
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.
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What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
