Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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I don't want my work to be heavy. The challenge is to make it interesting and engaging, keeping in mind the need for method acting. This is what I have learnt from Bharat Muni's 'Natya Shastra' and from the Russian theatre legend Stanislavsky.
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I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.
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You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.
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It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.
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When you're an entertainer, it's hard not to compare yourself with the next person's success. But you have to trust your own journey and your strengths and believe in yourself. I think that's the best place to start.
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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....
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My parents have been very supportive, in fact, it was my mother who identified that what I was going through was actually depression. My family and friends never let me feel as if something was wrong with me. They made me feel that what I was going through was okay. They supported my decision to take medication for depression.
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One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.
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I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
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The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.
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Having that Christian base keeps me focused on what I have to do. It keeps me out of the clubs and in the gym.
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May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
