Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
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My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
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I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.
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In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds of blues, and you follow the journey backwards from Chicago to earlier times back down to the Delta to the Memphis Blues.
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Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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I like women's basketball.
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Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.
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A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
