Ismail Merchant Quotes

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

Ismail Merchant

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• If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

  

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• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

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• There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

  

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• I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.

  

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• I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

  

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• As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.

  

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• The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!

  

  Lena Horne
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• The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

  

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• I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

  

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• (Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.

  

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• All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

  

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• I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.

  

  J. Golden Kimball
  • Remember
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• There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.

  

  T. D. Jakes
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• It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

  

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• You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

  

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• An actor gives voice to the many multitudes that we all contain. That's why we love the movies, why we love TV shows: we watch different people portray an aspect of ourselves, maybe even one we don't like.

  

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• For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.

  

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• You can only shoot small movies and documentaries for so long if you want to have a family that you support; eventually, you need to get let into the big leagues.

  

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• Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.

  

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• Who we are, not just the services and products we provide, creates money.

  

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• Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

  

  Ismail Merchant
  • Sadness
  • Melancholy
  • Emphasis