Gael Monfils Quotes
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.
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On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
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I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
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I know I'm strong, and that's good.
