Nandita Das Quotes
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
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I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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I produced some very good work at 'New York' magazine.
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People get careless when they're feeling safe.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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The young people look great on television. They’re youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven’t got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.
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When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.
