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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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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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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The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
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I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.
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To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.
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You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
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I did do Broadway for a little less than a year and realized quickly I don't have a passion for it and, more importantly, I don't have a talent in it.
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It just clicked that it was the next step for me; choreographing didn't interest me, and opening a studio wasn't a passion for me. I didn't know if I'd be very good at acting, but then my first scene in acting class... I just loved it.
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Golf has always been a passion over the years.
