Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes

After 'Shirdi Sai,' I wanted a total image makeover. I was looking to transform myself.

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Life
  • Child
  • Grandmother

• I want a place where I can have horses.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • Want
  • Place
  • I Can

• You don't try to do more than you should.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Try
  • More

• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Difficult

• So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Party

• I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Never

• Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Want
  • Control
  • Creative

• When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Win
  • See
  • Run

• There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Silly

• 'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Married

• For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

  

  Kate Bush
  • School
  • Responsibility
  • Child

• 'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Actor
  • Conversation

• I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Home
  • Kids

• I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • May
  • American
  • Happy

• Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • See
  • Perception
  • Computers

• The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Scary

• Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Just
  • Come

• I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Powerful

• It's nice to sort of walk in and at least create the illusion that you are, or your character is, a well-rounded human being, a complete person. Especially when you're playing these impressive, high-functioning professionals. You feel like you have to come in sort of guns blazing.

  

  Luke Roberts
  • Character
  • High
  • Nice

• Dark with excessive bright.

  

  John Milton
  • Dark
  • Bright
  • Excessive

• After 'Shirdi Sai,' I wanted a total image makeover. I was looking to transform myself.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna