Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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You're not sick you're just in love.
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Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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You have good days and bad days.
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.
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I never think about the knockouts. I go into every fight, do my work, and none of that stuff puts pressure on me at all.
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I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
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Imagine you can tell YouTube you have an hour to watch TV, and it would give you programming based around what you have watched in the past, what your friends watched and recommended, what your favourite celebrities tweeted about, and on one piece of input from you about what mood you are in.
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Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
