R. Madhavan Quotes

Television is a good training ground for aspiring stars. You can experiment and get away, imbibing the positive and viable aspects. Whereas, in cinema, the stakes are high. If something goes wrong, the film falls flat.

R. Madhavan

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• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

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• We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

  

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• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

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• I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

  

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• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

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• The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

  

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• The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.

  

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• A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

  

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• One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.

  

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• My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.

  

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• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

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  • World
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• Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

  

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  • Believe
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• If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

  

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  • Time
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• I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.

  

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• To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.

  

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• Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.

  

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• I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.

  

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• We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge. The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases.

  

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• Kate seemed to have doubled in size. She had drawn back her broad shoulders and set her jaw, and something in the stance called to mind the contained ferocity of a lioness. But it was the fierceness in Kate's bright blue eyes that had the most striking effect. The sort of look that made you thankful she wasn't your enemy. "It's not going to be over," Kate said firmly "Until we say so.

  

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  • Mind
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• The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

  

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  • Dance
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• Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television.

  

  Alec Douglas-Home
  • Look
  • Television
  • Flesh

• Television is a good training ground for aspiring stars. You can experiment and get away, imbibing the positive and viable aspects. Whereas, in cinema, the stakes are high. If something goes wrong, the film falls flat.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Stars
  • Television
  • Experiment