Ajith Kumar Quotes
I am in movies basically for the money, and frankly, I have a hard time believing those who say they act for the love of acting!
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.
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I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.
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I've never been in the studio world; TV is as close as I get to the more corporate approach to making entertainment.
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I am in movies basically for the money, and frankly, I have a hard time believing those who say they act for the love of acting!
