Kapil Dev Quotes
The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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There is more to life than show business.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
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Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
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There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.
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Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.
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If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.
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There's a great tradition among the English of writing about Berlin. It's kind of a state of mind, almost. That even translates in terms of music. A lot of people go to Berlin with the idea that it's a state of mind.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
