Read quote“A regime that has become politically bankrupt. They've painted themselves into a corner and they don't know how to get out of that corner.”
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Read quote“I knew that music was my language, that music would take me to see the world, would take me to other lands.”
Read quote“There are no fast bowlers in India.”
Read quote“I make cinema for people.”
Read quote“I believe I can out-think all but a few of the drivers on the circuit… Physically, I’m much stronger than they are.”
Read quote“The best obtainable version of the truth ... is really the objective.”
Read quote“And that the point of life could be to make life better doesn't seem to me too mysterious.”
Read quote“There is nowhere one needs to hide but in one’s own heart.”
Read quote“Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.”
Read quote“You just have to get started.”
Read quote“The American mind must reckon with a fundamentally changed Negro.”
Read quote“I think, honestly, I regret joining the rat race.”
Read quote“I don’t think about it, because when I’m working, I’m totally involved with my work.”
Read quote“قلما طار اسم الشاعر في حياته فوقع بعد مماته.”
Read quote“Comedy is all about timing.”
Read quote“Je n’ai pas envie d’être confortable.”
Read quote“om hon i sitt yrkesliv lyckades leva upp till detta öknamn hade hon privat alltid haft avsevärda svårigheter att motsvara en sådan beskrivning.”
Read quote“Who knows if these very pictures, now painted for maharajas, will not find their way to the museums one day.”
Read quote“The biggest commercial opportunity which the world has seen is the decarbonising of our planet.”
Read quote“The poem conventionally brings its own music.”