R. Madhavan Quotes
I had built my body to look like a boxer, then I lost it completely for 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns.' It was really tough gaining weight, building muscles, and then losing it completely for another film.
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The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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Hope is the raw material of losers.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.
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Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
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I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
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Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.
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I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
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It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
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I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.
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In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.
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Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
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I had built my body to look like a boxer, then I lost it completely for 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns.' It was really tough gaining weight, building muscles, and then losing it completely for another film.
