Idries Shah Quotes
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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Prior to my arrival at the Crowne Plaza in Indianapolis, my agent and I decided that it would be best not to participate in any drills at the combine. We wanted to wait until my pro day at Virginia, where I could limit the distractions and just focus on being my best.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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You look at material a different way when your ass is on the line financially for it. You want to know where the big laughs are, and how we're going to sell this.
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You learn from the good, you learn from the bad.
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At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.
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There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
