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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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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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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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
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Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.
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When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.
