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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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'm not graceful.
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Looking at the numbers, the transatlantic slave trade matches the Holocaust in horror - maybe even without counting subsidiary effects like internal strife and deaths inflected on the continent, death during transport, death during ownership, collapse of African economies, and such.
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We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these are van't Hoff, Arrhenius and Nernst. In the second group we have the men who do not make the great discovery but who see the importance and bearing of it, and who preach the gospel to the heathen. Ostwald stands absolutely at the head of this group. The last group contains the rest of us, the men who have to have things explained to us.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.'
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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.
