Barun Sobti Quotes
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.
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I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.
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The characters are not allowed to change if you write a sitcom; they're not allowed to learn anything. There's all these sorts of rules, and you go, 'I just want to be able to write one character and then leave that behind.' Also, as a performer, and I may regret saying this, but it would be my own personal hell to be trapped in the sitcom.
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Theres a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.
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I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.
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My take is that every character requires a different character to be cast.
