A. R. Rahman Quotes
A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
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Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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A lot of folks I mentor ask me, 'How did you get there?' I tell them, you never plan on it. Do a good job and treat customers well, do the right things for the right reasons. Prepare yourself, but don't spend all your time worrying about it. Just do your job, and you'll be recognized for it.
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... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
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A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
