"I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had."

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Ben Kingsley

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“Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.”

Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (1989). “Grandfather Stories”, p.145, Syracuse University Press
“'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.”
“You don't build a bond without being present.”

Source : "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
“We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.”
“You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.”
“Wouldn't. Think. About. Ian.”
“It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.”
“Man is a hybrid. From a lower order we have been genetically manipulated by advanced intelligences into what we are. Now that in itself is dynamite for god's sake.”

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