Ismail Merchant Quotes

Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.

Ismail Merchant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: producer
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: December 25, 1936 - May 25, 2005

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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

Jeremy Northam

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I want to win the MVP. I feel like, at the end of the day, it might be an individual award, but when I play better, the team also does.

Joel Embiid

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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

John F. Kerry

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Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

Matthew Desmond

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We must send a very clear message that if you enter our country illegally and then you commit one of these offenses, you will be dealt with harshly and you will pay a heavy price for your conduct.

John Shadegg

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They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

Steve Largent

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I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

Roone Arledge

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One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

Rory MacLean

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The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation.

Michael Korda

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A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Jose Bergamin

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When the mid-'70s came around, it looked like, 'Oh-oh, here come the punks.' But if you look closely at The Who and The Kinks, the anger and the frustration is there... There is, within me, just the same social discontent as I go through my career. But to be typecast as a singer of peace and love is fine.

Donovan

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I just love performing.

Debra Stephenson

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