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• In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Desire
  • Hero
  • Perception

• 'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Happy
  • Man

• I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Live
  • Joy
  • Jesus

• China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

  

  Gary Locke
  • World
  • History
  • China

• When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Different
  • Important
  • Myself

• I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Question
  • Always
  • Trouble

• I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Anxiety

• Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Determination

• No one will die if they don't know how old I am.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Die

• I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Up
  • School
  • War

• A-list stars go to Comic-Con to woo the nerd demographic.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Nerd

• I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer.

  

  Chevy Stevens
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Cleaning

• It was important for me early on to find the voice of each character and figure out what was unique about them and their individual worldview that I could use for comedy or conflict.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Important
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I was asked a question: 'Would I want to play for Madrid?' It's like anyone asked if they want to change jobs and move to a bigger company.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • Question

• I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.

  

  Mark McKinney

• The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • Friends
  • Imagination
  • September

• In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Practice

• I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Different
  • Environment

• [I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Government
  • Policy

• I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Good
  • Think
  • Limited

• When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Feet
  • Divorced
  • Adequate

• For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

  

  Aristotle
  • Limited
  • Adequate
  • Preferable