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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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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A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
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If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
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The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.
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Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.
