Arjun Rampal Quotes
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.
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I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
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The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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I don't really have a dream collaboration.
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Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
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There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.
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I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
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It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure.
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During the surge in Iraq, we were able to roll back the tide of al-Qaeda and associated insurgents because we succeeded in mobilizing Iraqis - especially Sunni Arabs - to join us in fighting against the largely Sunni extremist networks in their midst.
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I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.
