Satyajit Ray Quotes
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
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I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.
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And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.
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When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
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Being God would be the ultimate.
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In a family of faith, you don't believe in divorce; you believe you can make it.
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For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.
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Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
