Azim Premji Quotes
You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I've been your yellow M&M for, oh, at least two decades or so, and I've done a lot of other animated stuff in between.
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
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The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
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My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
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In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'
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It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
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The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
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The scar of fire, the dint of steel,Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast... It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number - before our doom comes.
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Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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If you just get out of your own way... It is amazing what will come to you.
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Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge industries would no longer make billions of dollars on activities that diminish the well-being and safety of our children, our health, and our environment, on the pretext that it's "just business." To put money before goodness is idolatry, and the laws of the universe ensure that in the end all idols will fall.
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I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.
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I have been extremely fortunate to have incredibly special fans support my work throughout my twelve year career.
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You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
