Zubin Mehta Quotes
I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Quotes to Explore
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
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What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I don't really go out at all.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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It is not easy for me to digest meat. I waste too much energy in digesting meat, and that's why I get my proteins from other products. I like beans and other legume plants very much. I need a lot of 'live' products such as fruit and vegetables.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
