Barun Sobti Quotes
My career choices aren't based on the popularity of my character; I have never intended to capitalise on my fan base.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.
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I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.
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What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
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It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
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My career choices aren't based on the popularity of my character; I have never intended to capitalise on my fan base.
