Uday Kiran Quotes
People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous decade, I would advise French businessmen on how to succeed in Germany; tell Americans what to do in Eastern Europe; show the Spanish how to become more like the Americans. I spent one particularly haunting year advising bankers in Mexico.
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I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.
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Timing is unpredictable and the severity is uncertain.
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People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.
