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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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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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 know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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When you're on camera, even though you try to lose yourself in the character, you are aware that there is a camera there capturing every moment of it visually. With doing a voiceover job, you are worried about the sound of it, and you have to make all those visual colors come out with your sound.
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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minded. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.
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We grew up on Scorsese and Coppola and '70s crime thrillers.
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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.
