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That's the way forwa... ALI FAZAL Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while,... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER world is a drama, we are the actors with our play role MICHALE CALLAHAN There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a ... RAHUL GANDHI A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we archit... CESAR PELLI Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform ... AMITABH BACHCHAN My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. ... JOHN LENNON I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in ... CHARLIE HUNNAM You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That's the role for me. You got the guys who... BILLY GARDELL A hero acts good largely in cinema as insight shows that many reel-life villains are better in natur... ANUJ SOMANY I'd rather spend my time with grape growers than actors. In the film industry, all the money is ... GERARD DEPARDIEU I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet o... LUPITA NYONG'O There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Ma... ANURAG KASHYAP Never give up on you. 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LEONARD HAMILTON We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this na... WALTER ISAACSON Let your heroes be known. Give praise and honor to those to whom it is rightly due. Spend more time ... JOHN PATRICK HICKEY We can play the spoiler. We are going to play a pivotal role in how other teams fare in the conferen... CURTIS SANFORD I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film... CLIVE OWEN All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the p... JOE JOHNSTON It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to you... ERIC STOLTZ Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a lit... DAVID CASSIDY Business has a key role to play. Here we are. It is up to us to create a sustainable path in the wor... BJORN STIGSON a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is more and more evidence building up that wild migratory birds do play some role in spreading... WARD HAGEMEIJER Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... DEYTH BANGER We ordinary citizens do have a role to play. While individually it isn't a big role, if many of us g... BRENDA STEWART How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w... WENDELL PIERCE Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profound... MALCOLM GLADWELL In an Indian kitchen, the focus is on getting the job or dish done right in whatever way possible; h... MANISH DAYAL I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at al... MARTIN SCORSESE I feel like an ambassador for surfing at this point. I'm happy to go and play that role and shar... KELLY SLATER It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. ... ANTOINE FUQUA In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. We recognize the important role that public worship plays in many communities, as well as the sincer... JOHN PAUL STEVENS People come up to me and say, 'You are such a great bad guy.' The fact is that the antagonis... ROBERT Z'DAR The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to... PAUL GIAMATTI I took the role of Rochelle in 'Everybody Hates Chris,' and that was it. I was going to play... TICHINA ARNOLD Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to li... IAN MCKELLEN Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for e... DYLAN MCDERMOTT There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen fo... BRIAN MOORE In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a ... SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are ... MADHUR BHANDARKAR On paper, actors are the dumbest group of individuals essentially out there. Most of us have not gon... MIKE VOGEL We have taken account of all aspects, including scientific evidence, but it is clear that public opi... CATHY MARET Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN It's one of my government's ambitions to secure a seat for Ireland on the U.N. Security Coun... LEO VARADKAR There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they ... TOM VILSACK Cinema will always have an important role to play in society. LESLIE CARON We have a lot of people who have a substantial financial interest in the outcome, and the interests ... MITT ROMNEY He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. CRAIG GROESCHEL All too often there was only silence. We need role models. We need to raise up people who have encou... JENNIFER BAKER (ACTIVIST) We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community th... IQBAL SACRANIE The farmer in us makes us do the things we do SOTONYE ANGA Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married. ADAM LEVINE It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that w... CHARLIE COX It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth. KERRY KING A lot of things have changed since I made my debut in 2004. The way cricket is played has changed. T... MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI Indian cinema needs all ingredients like emotion, action, sentiment and humour; it's not easy. I... PAWAN KALYAN I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky l... SAMUEL BARNETT The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL
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AMITABH BACHCHAN As a creative agency, the film industry is thinking great subjects, presenting them wonderfully well... AMITABH BACHCHAN I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with pol... AMITABH BACHCHAN It's a great opportunity to be together apart from celebrating Indian cinema. AMITABH BACHCHAN I don't know how others think about me, but if I have to walk the streets, I will, and if I need... AMITABH BACHCHAN You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a ... AMITABH BACHCHAN The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is ju... AMITABH BACHCHAN I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an act... AMITABH BACHCHAN Ram Gopal Varma is a most noteworthy talent and has given us some very valuable iconic films. I enjo... AMITABH BACHCHAN I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty... AMITABH BACHCHAN People ask me why it is that when I portray the 'angry young man' on screen, I really look a... AMITABH BACHCHAN Such criticism is most unfortunate. In matters of foreign policy, there should be continuity and bip... ABHISHEK MANU SINGHVI He's not directly implicated. Let the results of the retrial come. ABHISHEK MANU SINGHVI There is no need for a politics of resignation. ABHISHEK MANU SINGHVI He is entitled to speak as a member of the Congress Working Committee. It doesn't mean he is speakin... ABHISHEK MANU SINGHVI One can't even comment on them. ABHISHEK MANU SINGHVI An angel for some, a demon for some, for me, it’s heart of the one. Never want to h... ABHISHEK KUMAR SINGH My family is my strength and my weakness. AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my plac... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I'm just an average woman with average concerns. AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do. AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused ... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be m... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I am really OK with the way I look. It's fine. All this is transient. I mean, it's really, y... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be abl... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN Weight gain can happen at any point in time, and it is something that you are dealing with anyway, a... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise. AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN What's blessed about my life is that I have been able to connect with the global audience on a r... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too ... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without slee... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run ... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself ... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what ... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops. AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft. AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll ... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred. AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other reg... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN