Ravi Subramanian Quotes
To make time for writing, one has to take time out from somewhere. Obviously, a fair amount of time that you spend with the family gets compromised. But my family has been very understanding and supportive.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
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The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things.
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True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
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The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
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You're always taught that the world is so competitive. You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful and that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.
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It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.
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The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
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The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.
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To make time for writing, one has to take time out from somewhere. Obviously, a fair amount of time that you spend with the family gets compromised. But my family has been very understanding and supportive.
