R. Madhavan Quotes
Actually, nobody has ever given me an award, and also, it's not really important in my life. I go to these award shows for meeting my friends.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
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Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
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That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
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I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'
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I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.
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I used to watch all my friends play with G.I. Joes. I couldn't afford them.
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I just like winning every tournament that I play. All of them are important for me. Each has its own history, its own characteristic, but they are all important.
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Why borrow if you are not in need of it? You must lend feet to the maximum of your bed only, and not to borrow except in the case of necessity.
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In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.
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Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.
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Actually, nobody has ever given me an award, and also, it's not really important in my life. I go to these award shows for meeting my friends.
