Zarin Mehta Quotes
I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.
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I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
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It's especially important for my little girl to see her papa at work.
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I'm very conscious of the luck I've had. It's important to have this in your mind and remember it.
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The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their bodies pumped full of drugs. Yet most would rather die at home and with more control over the timing and manner of their death.
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There's not a Sunday that goes past that I'm not excited to play this game. I feel as if I'm a lucky individual to have the opportunity to play this game, and when I do have the opportunity to finally play, you can bet your last dollar I will be excited to play.
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If you come into any creative project without questions, you're gonna bore yourself, and it'll show on the page.
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I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.
