Vijay Sethupathi Quotes
Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.
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James Branch Cabell made this book so that he who wills may read the story of mans eternally unsatisfied hunger in search of beauty. Ettarre stays inaccessible always and her lovliness is his to look on only in his dreams. All men she must evade at the last and many ar the ways of her elusion.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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When you're working with a big star, you always wonder what it's going to be like. Hugh Jackman puts you at ease within 10 minutes. He has such a wonderful energy and is so generous when you're doing a scene. He's just so funny and friendly and playful - he instantly becomes your friend.
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The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
