Vir Das Quotes

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

Vir Das

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HistoryReadingWatchingReliableTV

It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.

Jeremy Irons

LearningTrustFriendsYouGoNice

I grew up with a fascination with Marco Polo. I had this unlikely interest in the East as a young man, and you can't really read about Chinese history and philosophy without encountering him at every turn.

John Fusco

HistoryManPhilosophyYouYoungUp

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

John McCain

HopeHistoryIdentityWorldLose

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

Robert Graves

TimeMoneyMeWritingTalkingWrong

When you know someone, and you get to work with them, automatically there is this comfort zone which comes in.

Shraddha Kapoor

WorkComfort ZoneSomeoneYouKnow

Human rights, race relations, gender politics, health care, and foreign policy - it's a lot to keep track of, and yet all of these things affect us in our daily lives. Making sense of everything requires meticulous unpacking of feelings, delicate navigation of social norms, and a community of love to help along the way.

Tracee Ellis Ross

LoveDailyCommunityHealthPolitics

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

Rupert Murdoch

First AmendmentFirstReasonPress

My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.

Rosecrans Baldwin

MemoriesLosingHumanityYouLose

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

Mikhail Bakunin

PositiveKnowledgeI AmDetailsVery

I put more emphasis on filmmakers than maybe Hollywood does.

Jason Blum

HollywoodMoreThanMaybeEmphasis

Part of my reason for 'Session 9' was to break out, to destroy the illusion of me as 'Mr. Romantic Comedy Guy.'

Brad Anderson

RomanticMeComedyIllusionReason

I know what 'Doctor Who' fans are like because I am a 'Doctor Who' fan myself. They're good people.

Peter Capaldi

GoodMyselfI AmPeopleDoctorKnow

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