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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? Probably the one that I haven't hung most with recently.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
