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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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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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 have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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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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For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.
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Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.
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Pity those who don't feel anything at all
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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
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Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
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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.
