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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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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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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It was a real shame that the technology wasn't up to the creation that was going on with quad. It just wasn't reaching the consumer in the right way.
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I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I sing around the house, in the shower.
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Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.
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The reality is, this is a very different world than where we were even six months ago.
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Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.
