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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Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.
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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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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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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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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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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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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.
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I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.
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Golf has always been a passion over the years.
