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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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My first concert was 'Nsync.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
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I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.
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I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.
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Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.
