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"Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain."
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"Confidence is silent, cool, self-assurance."

"It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself."

"The sun shines every day without being told that it is brilliant. The mountains stand tall and majestic though no one informs them of their grandeur. The winds twirl and dance with clouds, minus cheers or compliments to inspire their moves. Flowers bloom, showing off colors, long before passing smiles acknowledge any beauty. The ocean claps at its own underwater chorus without topside ears listening. What is the world trying to tell you? Be wonderful because you are. Quit waiting to be told so first."

"We all go through times of self-doubt, times when we may question our abilities and hope we can live up to the expectations of others."

"Why not to choose to believe in yourself, just to see what happens?"

"I know that I am not always right to the perception of some, but I am not daunted of being wrong. That's the effectiveness of confidence."

"Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit."

"Someone asked, "Can Anybody?" A CA replied, "Yes, and I don't think I just can, I know I will. I am a Chartered Accountant."

"True confidence is not something that can always be determined by a first impression. It may take a few interactions to detect whether a person is full of false bravado or if they are the "real McCoy."
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"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know."


"Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day."


"Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film."


"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists."


"I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!"


"I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result."


"Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family."


"They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me."


"The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra."
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