Randeep Hooda Quotes
For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.
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Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.
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How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.
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The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
