Deepa Mehta Quotes
One of the things that I really love about doing a film is working with actors and the whole casting process. I feel I'm not looking for actors. I feel I'm looking for characters. If the characters come from Bollywood, fine. If they come from Indian theater, perfect.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.
Mandy Bujold -
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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I really liked the idea of playing - I won't say the underdog - but characters who have a lot of conflict.
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There was no one around me who didn't work hard.
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One of the things that I really love about doing a film is working with actors and the whole casting process. I feel I'm not looking for actors. I feel I'm looking for characters. If the characters come from Bollywood, fine. If they come from Indian theater, perfect.
