Ratan Tata Quotes
The political system of the People's Republic of China can make things easy. Decisions are made quickly and results come quickly, too. In our democracy [in India], on the other hand, such things are extremely difficult.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
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Holy cow, in the course of one week I feel like I've lived about a year!
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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I love dreams.
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I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music and 5% on playing out and telling people about it. That's kind of a good equation.
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People are starving for truth and leadership.
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If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored.
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Commencement speech at Howard University, as quoted in 'Obama: Students Need to Stop Shutting Down Speech of People They Disagree With' by Josh Feldman, Mediaite (7 May 2016)
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The political system of the People's Republic of China can make things easy. Decisions are made quickly and results come quickly, too. In our democracy [in India], on the other hand, such things are extremely difficult.
