Edmond Jabes Quotes
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Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
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My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
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All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.
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Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
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Music has always been profoundly important to me.
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I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well.
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Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.
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Modern man, Homo sapiens sapiens, dates back about 200,000 years and is the only surviving hominid species.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.
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Does surviving mean living on life, living on a dead life, living death all life long?
