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'Not A Love Story' is inspired by true events, but it is not based on those events completely. When I first read about the Maria Susairaj case, I was fascinated with the psychological aspects, that two seemingly very ordinary people can go completely berserk.
Ram Gopal Varma
Love
People
Events
First
Love Story
Those
Berserk
About
Case
Seemingly
Inspired
True
Read
Go
Very
Psychological
Ordinary
Story
Ordinary People
Aspects
Fascinated
Based
Maria
Two
A film, I feel, is a state of mind. A film eventually comes from an idea: based on an idea, you make a decision, and once you make the decision, you keep comparing everything to that, but don't question the decision itself.
Ram Gopal Varma
You
Decision
Mind
State
Everything
Once
Idea
Feel
Make
Question
Itself
Comparing
Keep
Film
Based
Eventually
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
Randall Terry
God
Government
Law
Impossible
Religious
Civil
Civil Government
Some
Neutral
Issues
Sovereign
Then
Code
Based
I've hired people I've met at parties and other events, and I've hired a lot of people right out of college. It's really based on personality as opposed to experience.
Rande Gerber
Experience
People
Personality
Events
College
Met
Other
Out
Parties
Opposed
Hired
Lot
Really
Based
Right
Perhaps the loneliest time was during the Tata Tea issue in Assam. For some reason, everyone believed that we had conspired with the extremists, ULFA. People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth. Sometimes it is based on inadequate or wrong information.
Ratan Tata
Truth
Time
People
Sometimes
Tea
Believe
Everyone
Extremists
Some
Had
Wrong
Perhaps
Read
Still
Issue
Information
Inadequate
Reason
Believed
Based
Necessarily
We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
Raul Grijalva
War
Home
Fight
Women
People
Will
Men
Men And Women
Congress
Our
Troops
Troops Home
Exercise
Issue
Continue
American
Die
Deception
Whether
Fantasy
American People
Choice
Based
Right
Start
Bringing
There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean.
Ravi Shankar
Day
You
Sunset
Sunrise
Feeling
Ocean
Nine
Moods
Scales
Thousands
Like
Principally
Call
Emptiness
Praying
Times
Get
Sitting
Different
Connected
Different Times
Based
Night
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.
Ravi Shankar
Music
Down
Live
Indian
Indian Music
Composed
Classical
Classical Music
Never
Written
Written Down
Individuals
Perform
Sounds
Same
Improvised
Certain
Twice
Based
I do not think I will ever write screenplays based on my books. I would not know what to cut out and what portions to keep. I like all the characters I have created. I cannot imagine chopping them off.
Ravi Subramanian
Will
Think
Books
Out
Characters
Would
Write
Like
Know
Off
Screenplays
Cannot
Them
Cut
Created
Chopping
Keep
Based
Ever
Portions
Imagine
There's a market for fiction based on financial services. People wanted me to write stories based on this sector. There's a gap in the market, and I'm trying to fill it.
Ravi Subramanian
Me
People
Financial
Market
Sector
Financial Services
Write
Trying
Fiction
Wanted
Stories
Gap
Fill
Based
Services
I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air conditioning nor shower facilities. I made decisions based upon facts and not what I thought was going to happen. So history will judge me based upon those actions.
Ray Nagin
Me
History
People
Judge
Will
Thought
Made
Every
Air
Air Conditioning
Those
Minute
Facilities
Facts
Knew
Judge Me
Nor
Conditioning
Did
Going
Happen
Decisions
Shower
Actions
Based
Among
Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on their political views. No citizen - Republican or Democrat, Socialist or libertarian - should be targeted or even have to fear being targeted on those grounds.
Raymond Kethledge
Fear
Political
Citizen
Address
Libertarian
Those
Citizens
Allegations
Federal
Most
Democrat
Executive
Court
Targeted
Political Views
Being
Republican
Agency
Should
Views
Grounds
Even
Serious
Based
Socialist
Among
The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to adapt their practices based on it, or ignore it, seems to vary.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Government
Internet
Pay
Pay Attention
Seems
Vary
Attention
Clearly
Practices
Opinion
Does
Which
Chinese
Public
Chinese Government
Ignore
Choose
Public Opinion
Expressed
Based
Extent
Adapt
In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
Reed Hastings
Success
Arrogance
Past
Hindsight
Based
We've always anticipated that, as Nintendo would demonstrate business potential with an idea, others would follow. And we believe that based on history - rumble, joystick - things that we invented, if you will, and first put in video games, others quickly latched on to.
Reggie Fils-Aime
Video Games
History
You
Business
Will
First
Believe
Others
Nintendo
Would
Follow
Invented
Potential
Put
Idea
Always
Demonstrate
Anticipated
Quickly
Video
Games
Based
Things
Black lives certainly do matter - that's one thing. But, it's just that in every profession, there are bad, as well as there are good. I think it's wrong to make cops - or any group - out to be the enemy based on a generalization. Stigmas and generalizations about groups are what get this world into such turmoil.
Reginald VelJohnson
Good
Enemy
World
Matter
Black
Group
Every
Think
Out
Bad
One Thing
About
Generalization
Generalizations
Wrong
Well
Make
Get
Any
Just
Turmoil
Certainly
Profession
Groups
Based
Lives
Thing
Cops
The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.
Rem Koolhaas
Architecture
Will
Stronger
Thinking
Other
Our
Way
Develop
New
Force
Still
West
Intellectual
Cultures
Dominant
Expect
Models
New Way
Getting
Urban
Planning
Less
Based
If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.
Renee Olstead
Best
You
Clothes
Kind
Best Friend
Stay
Wears
Touch
Picking
She
How
Friend
Going
Graduation
After
Your
Popular
Based
Chances
I moved here in 1997. It's 20 years later, and I finally feel like I'm in this business. I feel like I could call my manager if I wanted to set up a meeting to pitch something and actually get it done, based on my history and the work I've done. I can't say that I felt that way five years ago.
Retta
Work
History
Business
Meeting
Later
Finally
Way
Say
Something
Could
Feel
Like
Call
Felt
Years
Years Ago
Up
Five
Get
Manager
Pitch
Done
Moved
Wanted
Based
Actually
Here
Set
The Common Core State Standards are based on the best international research. They are built on the standards used by the most effective education systems around the world, including Singapore, Finland, Canada and the U.K.
Rex Tillerson
Education
Best
World
Research
State
Systems
Finland
Most
Singapore
Around
Built
Effective
Canada
Common
Used
Standards
International
Including
Based
Core
I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked what the boys were doing and thought: 'Why let them have all the fun?'
Rhianna Pratchett
Me
Thought
Gender
Tell
Only
Only Child
Never
Had
Like
Liked
Boy
Doing
Were
Sisters
Child
Them
Should
Fun
Based
Why
The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.
Rhys Ifans
Disbelief
Genre
Deceit
Suspension
Theater
Whole
Film
Based
The fact is that the United States does not need Israel. Our special relationship was not forged, as it was with Great Britain, in two world wars, not to mention a common language and, in significant respects, culture. It is based on warmth, emotion, shared values - and, not to be dismissed, a potent domestic lobby.
Richard Cohen
Great
Relationship
Culture
World
Language
Values
Lobby
Great Britain
Our
States
Respects
Significant
Potent
Fact
Mention
Emotion
Shared
Does
Israel
Domestic
Forged
Common
Common Language
Warmth
Dismissed
Special
Wars
United
Based
United States
Britain
Two
Need
World Wars
As governor, I would gladly sign legislation to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. Other states have led on these issues, and I firmly believe that Ohio must provide an inclusive, welcoming, and tolerant environment that is free of harassment and discrimination for everyone.
Richard Cordray
Free
Gender
Inclusive
Believe
Other
Prohibit
Everyone
States
Sign
Must
Would
Sexual
Gladly
Environment
Firmly
Welcoming
Issues
Provide
Led
Governor
Discrimination
Legislation
Ohio
Harassment
Tolerant
Orientation
Based
As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us.
Richard Dooling
Words
Dangerous
Differences
Society
Dangerous Thing
Some
Pick
Idea
Between
Most
Sounds
Offensive
Afraid
Us
Now
Based
Right
Thing
Associate
Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.
Richard Engel
People
Nation
Think
Weaker
Would
Would-Be
Seem
Tend
Spoken
Come
Safer
Because
Conclusion
Impression
Yes
America
Agree
Al
Based
Al-Qaeda
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