Jean Renoir Quotes
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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I've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.
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I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.
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Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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When desire dies, fear is born.
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President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.
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I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
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You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
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I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.
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I love it right now. I love being retired. I think I retired at a perfect time in my career. Now I get an opportunity to spend time with my wife and kids and get to be very supportive of them. My son is playing football right now. My daughter is in gymnastics. Both are competing at a high level. So it came at the right time.
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I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'
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When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.