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		The boys. The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dimdomed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway?
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Goldman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lakshmi Mittal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abhishek Bachchan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madhur Bhandarkar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Armstrong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harold Brodkey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Cusk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madhur Bhandarkar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Drama starts where logic ends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ram Charan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vidya Balan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lamar Alexander 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Magda Apanowicz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yusuf Hamied