R. Madhavan Quotes
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If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
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For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.
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Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
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My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.
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If you allow yourself to feel fabulous, you are fabulous.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.
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The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.
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I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being played by a Scandinavian actress - because my son was completely crazy about 'Star Wars.'
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We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.
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Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.'
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We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.
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I always say you just need 20 minutes a day. That is it: 20 minutes to do really fast circuits, and you can bring some weights with you to work.
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Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.
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Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
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As a society, we're failing. In so many ways. Such high incarceration rates of underrepresented minorities ultimately means we're missing out on great potential from black and Latino communities. Yes, there's immense talent brewing even within the most impoverished neighborhoods. Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.
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You never want to pull any punches. You want that stuff to be as real and as vicious as possible.
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I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.
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My favourite food is definitely paani puri.
