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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A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.
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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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I have something called exercise bulimia, which is where you rid of your calories by over-exercising.
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Estoy solo entre materias desvencijadas,la lluvia cae sobre mí, y se me parece,se me parece con su desvarío,solitaria en el mundo muerto,rechazada al caer, y sin forma obstinada.
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The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.
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I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
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You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
