Eyvind Kang Quotes
When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
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It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
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Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
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I felt it necessary to evolve entirely new concepts (of form and space and paintings) and postulate them in an instrument that could continue to shake itself free from dialectical perversions. The dominant ones, Cubism and Expressionism, only reflected the attitudes of power or spiritual debasement of the individual.
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I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
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Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
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I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.
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When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.
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I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.
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When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.
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I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.
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I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.
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You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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My voice is rather quirky. It's abysmally low. People often think I'm putting it on at first. Think drunk Darth Vader. Or Barry White singing country. It suits my dark material. When I do readings, I really play it up and go subterranean. I can make the phone book sound terrifying.
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Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.
