Rajiv Ouseph Quotes
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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I always thought everybody else was better than me.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
