Leander Paes Quotes
Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.
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Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.
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I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.
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My dad could hold a tune. He wasn't necessarily a singer, but he did love music, and he listened to it quite loud in the car.
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When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.
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Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased.
