Anurag Kashyap Quotes
All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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I hate competition.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won't learn it anywhere else.
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But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.
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The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
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All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.
