N. T. Rama Rao, Jr. Quotes
I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned.
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I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
