Chanakya Quotes
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
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I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
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I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.
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I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.
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As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone should talk about our films.
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It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.
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Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.
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When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
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To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.
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My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
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All the better; they do not force me to do anything that I would not have done of my own accord if I did not dread scandal. But since they want it that way, I enter gladly on the path that is opened to me, with the consolation that my departure will be more innocent than was the exodus of the early Hebrews from Egypt.
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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
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Existence is its own justification, need is right.
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It is too often not realized that culture itself is an adaptive tool, one of whose main functions is to make the physiological emergencies come less and less often.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
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I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
