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 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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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Back in 1978, when I was still in high school, I went to see a Broadway show, 'Paul Robeson,' starring James Earl Jones. It was all about Robeson's journey as a human being, an artist, a champion of civil rights. Had I not seen the play, I might not have known who Robeson was. I was certainly never taught about him in school.
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Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.
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Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
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I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.
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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.
