Fauja Singh Quotes
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.
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I can only control what I can control.
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There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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The khaleesi seems the most fair.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Anything worth doing is going to be difficult.
