Ashwin Sanghi Quotes
We can't deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the 'Slumdog Millionaire,' a lot of people started reading Vikas Swarup's 'Q & A'. From a business sense, films are a good tool to increase the number of readers.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.
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I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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When I died last, and dear, I die As often as from thee I go.
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What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles — to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.
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We can't deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the 'Slumdog Millionaire,' a lot of people started reading Vikas Swarup's 'Q & A'. From a business sense, films are a good tool to increase the number of readers.
