R. Madhavan Quotes
I've realised that to make a successful film, you have to be with a unit which is happy and positive from the beginning.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
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I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
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When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
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I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.
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True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.
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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.
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Mean doesn't last. Mean is over fast. Maybe this is the essence of everything, which is, to me, if there is no emotional center for what I'm doing, I have no interest in it at all.
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I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.
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I used to cut school sometimes and record songs.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I've realised that to make a successful film, you have to be with a unit which is happy and positive from the beginning.
