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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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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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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No, I don't belong to a retirement community.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
