Loveleen Tandon, the casting director of ‘Brick Lane,’ understood my capacity and suggested my name to director Sarah Gavron. The film has such universal appeal that given a chance I would like to remake it in Hindi.
I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
We underestimate our people. Given a challenge, most of our people will do it, especially the youngsters who take to technology like duck to water.
If I went by all the rejection I’ve had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
Lots of people expect ‘Andhadhun’ to be a dark film, given it’s from Sriram Raghavan. But this film is fun, entertaining, thrilling, and while it has moments of darkness, overall it’s not a dark film.
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
We have no companies now, not in the sense that I know, that nurture actors. It’s very depressing that, given the money they get, the companies today don’t number up in my estimation. They should be bringing on young talent, and they don’t.
I’m not super aware of what’s the coolest thing and what everybody’s doing or listening to or watching at any given time.
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
To be allowed to come back to WWE is the greatest gift that’s ever been given to me. Back in the day, I never appreciated what WWE had given me, because I was in too much disarray and too confused about my own life. I let opportunities foolishly slip through my hands.
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we’ll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That’s harder than it sounds.
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation’s wars.
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
Always be original. Never duplicate what you’ve seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you’ve been given, and the rest will come easy.
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
I have always given priority to the gravity of the roles I do.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer’s role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
I’m very thankful for the platform I’ve been given, and I realize that I’m a role model for many people. I want to use my platform to spread positivity.
I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Nothing’s by fluke and nothing’s been given to me.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
Creating a new country from scratch has given Estonia the license to imagine what a country could be.
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host’s grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.
That is the exciting thing: I don’t know what God has given me for tomorrow.
It’s been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.
Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.
Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
Do not borrow the productions of other men’s brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.
I’ve given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals.
Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is that while I’d give my father the money I earned, anything that was special to me – like an award or an album – would be given to my mother.
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It’s free.
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
Huwaei receives significant funding from the Chinese government and is run by a former director of the telecoms research unit of the People’s Liberation Army. The components are feared to have given China the ability to disrupt or shut down key parts of the U.K.’s critical national infrastructure.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
With devotion at the center of your awareness, you don’t have to refer to your past in order to make a choice of how to respond or react in any given situation.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Being out there in the ocean, God’s creation, it’s like a gift He has given us to enjoy.
The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination – what do you dream of wanting to do?
Private schools are gaming the system. There is way too much state money going in, and people who go to private schools seem to be given a head start for all of the top jobs and that’s something that needs to be dealt with as well.
