A. R. Rahman Quotes
For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Although I don't live there anymore, Scotland is a great place for the people coming over to visit and to tour around the Highlands, because it is a very magical place.
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
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The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'
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We can use music as a tool to overcome things. It was a beautiful age and realization for me, an awakening. I felt like my eyes were opened. It was like, you mean to tell me that I have the opportunity when I'm bottling stuff up, wanting to smash windows and breaking down walls, I can put that energy into a song and wake up the next day with that weight lifted?
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But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
