Utkarsh Ambudkar Quotes
I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
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The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.
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Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
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When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
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When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
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No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
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The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.
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When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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If you have a dream, be brave enough to go and get it!
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My loyalty is to myself, actually. I don't know if it's to my readers.
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We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
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What you have in my work is one person's path as he travels through the world, and there is no limitation of what is conceivable.
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I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.
