Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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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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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.
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It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them…
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The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.
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I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
