Suriya (Saravanan Sivakumar) Quotes
I'm just trying to up my films - how every film should be better than the previous one. That's what I struggle for.
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
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Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan's ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate supporters on the far right - and crucial to his political success.
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I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.
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I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.
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My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.
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I think that's the way to go - dive into the music and don't think, stay frozen, why don't we all stay frozen in time for awhile?
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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
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My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.
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I'm just trying to up my films - how every film should be better than the previous one. That's what I struggle for.
