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I hold Lord Buddha in utmost
reverence, for He is the one spiritual teacher who pointed out that one
should not accept His philosophy because others who came
before accepted it, because some highly respected person
recommends it , or because of any other reason, but accept it
if and only if its logic and its clarity appeals to one's
intellect.
Lord Buddha, who made free thinking in its true and
most meaningful sense a reality, is my constant source of
comfort and my eternal refuge. |
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My mother, Mallika
Wimaladharma |
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Yashoda with
her mother |
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Amma
has always been very, very special to me. She is not only a
mother to me but a very good friend as well. When I started
acting (when I was in grade eight) she encouraged me to
continue my acting but advise me not to interrupt my studies
for acting. At that time she was working too and she had to go
through lots of difficulties. So if not for her I wouldn't
have come so far. I wouldn't have achieved these things. |
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Rabindranath
Tagore
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He is one of
Indiaís most cherished renaissance figures who won the 1913
Nobel Prize for Literature for his book of poetry, ëGithanjalií.
He had a myriad talents as a novelist, dramatist, essayist,
painter and composer, and had worldwide acclaim for his
clairvoyant thinking on social, political, religious and
aesthetic issues. |
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Audrey Hepburn
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I believe she is
one of the finest actresses in Hollywood because of her
versatility. She had the ability to use her entire physique ñ
voice, face, eyes, body ñ in her portrayal of a character,
which was never identical to another performance. She may not
be as beautiful as other stars but her attractiveness radiates
from within.
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Excellent characters are created
by excellent creative people. When such characters have to be
performed on stage or cinema, they become nervous. That is
because they are not quit sure whether actors and actresses
would be able to deliver exactly the way they would like them
to. I feel that Audry Hepburn would have cried out for courage
to play characters which may not have suited her physique. I
don't think any actress in our era has been able to even get
close to her.
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William
Shakespeare
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I am in constant awe
of and have extraordinary admiration for this artist, who with
so much feeling, creativity and finesse expressed to all
mankind the enduring truths of the human condition in their
exceptional as well as varied forms. The simplicity found in
his most modest sonnet and even in an all time classic dramatic work
such as "Hamlet", inspires teaches and widens my horizon
even today. |
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Luciano
Pavarotti
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How could the human
voice be as divine? How is a voice, a melody, a song, whose origin is
an economic, natural and social world so different from one's
own, able to steal away one's imagination, one's heart even with the
very first line of the music score? His language is foreign to
me and yet, I find myself captured by the spirituality that
he exudes in the form of a song |
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Wolfgang
Amadeus
Mozart
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I believe that
whenever music enters our being and in deed when it succeeds in
touching us spiritually, it is as though we have been given a new
lease
of life. This is why I am attached to music that Mozart gifted
to this world brief during his life time, so brief, so very brief
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