Zarin Mehta Quotes
I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels. It's called microfluidics.
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It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
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Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.
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If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
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I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
