Akshay Kumar Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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I love improvising.
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
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There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
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You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.
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Some things are better done than described.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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When they went down to the bunkhouse for dinner the vaqueros seemed to treat them with a certain deference but whether it was the deference accorded the accomplished or that accorded to mental defectives they were unsure.
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Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!
