R. Madhavan Quotes
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
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There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul.
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus groups.
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Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!
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Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
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Golf has always been a passion over the years.
