"Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing."

-- Sanjeev Bhaskar

#India Quotes #Actors Quotes #Timing Quotes

“Aid should shift to investment. This will help countries stand on their own.”
“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose”, p.102, Vintage
“I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there are billions who like and love them. I don't like all the singing, dancing and all the dramatic crying. I have never seen a Bollywood film in my life.”

Source : "'I Hate Bollywood' Says Canadian Comedian Russell Peters" by Nyay Bhushan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.
“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.”
“The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ... in the whole record of human experience, and they control, in the last resort, the rise or fall of political systems, the freedom or bondage of nations, the movements of commerce and industry, the origin of wealth and poverty, and the general physical welfare of the race.”
“The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle for his soul; the conviction that human life is nothing more than an uncertain struggle between heaven and hell; the faith in two opposed entities, Satan and Christ - all this was bound to engender those internal discords in which the soul, excited by the incessant fighting, stimulated as it were by the constant promises and threats, ends up by giving in and prostitutes itself to whichever of the two combatants has been more obstinate in its pursuit.”
“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”
“This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.”

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