Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes
My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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The world is always in movement.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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I have a team around me to support me.
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I love to surf. Hawaii has some of the best waves in the world, and the most consistent as well. That's always fun.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.
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I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good.
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
