Leander Paes Quotes
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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We are all terminal.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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When you behave well towards somebody regardless of what you're receiving, you feel better about yourself. So be decent to people.
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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound. I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground. Whisk the lamps away... Night.
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I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.
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I've always had this hyper kinetic energy, so I don't really need much sleep at night.
