Vir Das Quotes
Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.
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It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.
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It took me a while to get over 'Highway'. I started living the character of 'Veera' very closely. I don't think I would be able to give so much to a character the way I did with her.
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To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.
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Alice and I, we'd met before, but we were able to kind of sit and chat on the set of Dark Shadows, and talk about maybe writing some songs together. We started doing that, and then one thing led to another and it became this Vampire project - because he was telling stories about all those days, which were fascinating.
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Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.
