A. R. Rahman Quotes
I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a chore. I made it look laborious.
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He considered himself to be a thoroughly useless man, taking up space in a world to which he contributed nothing - but he did have a talent for baking… The gas oven might blow up in his face, at last bringing him peace, but if it didn't, he would at least have cookies for Agnes.
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I didn't think it was possible for Asians to be actors.
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Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
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Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
