Benita Valente Quotes
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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I have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.
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Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.
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I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.
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I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.
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They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
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I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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Everything is on its way to somewhere.
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I've made sure I am working hard enough to get that lead and keep it there.
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Perhaps the old fogies in the blogosphere get that way because, well, we stop taking the whole megillah so seriously. And we can't take it seriously because, well, this isn't our primary means of employment and never will be. Once the blogosphere is run by sufficient numbers of people who are paid to blog, us enlightened amateurs just look semi-pro.
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.
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Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.
