Jonathan Swift Quotes
I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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New York is my home.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
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My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of 'Revolver Rani' in Tigmanshu Dhulia's office. After hearing the narration, my sister was very scared and adamant that I should not do this film, as my character was twisted, neurotic, violent and abusive.
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We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.
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I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.
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I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.
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But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
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It was never a plan to be an actor.
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If I walked into a restaurant, the other diners would look around and say, 'I hope you're not cooking.'
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
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You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
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There is an instinctive understanding that the cultural, social and political development of a nation is a dynamic process which has to be given purpose and direction by drawing on tradition as well as by experiment, innovation and a willingness to evaluate both old and new ideas objectively.
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Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
