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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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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I'm not here to win a popularity contest.
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The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
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[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting.
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I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.
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As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines.
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A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
