A. R. Rahman Quotes
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.
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My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
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I've always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.
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I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
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I didn't record 'Pumped Up Kicks' out of a sense of moral obligation.
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I think the strength of the man is to have the right balance. Not to be so high when you win; not to be so down when you lose.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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'What if this funny-looking youngster from Missouri is talented after all?' I think it was a nice place to grow up, but I'm glad I don't live there anymore.
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I wanted to produce film songs that go beyond language or culture.
