"If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God."

-- Ali Akbar Khan

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“Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.”
“The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.”
“If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to blow itself apart.”

Source : "Fundamental laws - Astronomical reach". Interview with Catherine Zandonella, research.princeton.edu. January 31, 2014.
“Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.”

Source : "Ricki-Lee Coulter: 'Everyone's got a bit of Hanson in them'". Interview with Bridie Jabour, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2013.
“The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.”
“Try a recipe that uses leafy vegetables like kale, or switch to filling, high fiber grains like whole-wheat pasta.”
“I believe all children are - are blessings from God. And to allocate that rule to a doctor - to - to dispose of a life is uncomprehensible to me.”

Source : "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.
“I really love a challenge, but in 'Downton' it was really hard going because there's no CGI - what you see is what you get. These were real explosions right in front of our faces, and you just had to make sure that you cleared out of the way.”

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