Quotes by Javed Akhtar - Page 1

There was something missing In my foundation Why blame the poor walls?
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Character
Missing
Wall
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Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.
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Emerged
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I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Atheist
Believe
Religious
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I am a secular rationalist Nationalist proud Indian who is inconvenient to both Hindu and Muslim communalists.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Inconvenient
Secular
I Am Proud Who
Hindu
Muslim
Nationalist
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You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a family of poets.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
First Of All
Lyricist
Poets
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I know Priyanka Chopra personally. She is a cultured, decent and educated person and the fact remains that she is an Indian.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Decent
Educated
Remains
Cultured
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Working with anyone is easy as long as you realise that your collaborator has the understanding and experience even if he is younger to you.
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Collaborator
Realise
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I genuinely believe that people who are in their 20s and 30s understand certain things that I don't. I have a lot to offer to them and vice-versa.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Certain Things
Genuinely
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Everything is now moving fast so communication has to be fast as well. But the tragedy is that we have attained this speed at the cost of depth of words.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Communication
Cost
Depth
Speed
Tragedy
Attained
Fast
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Words are a strange thing. You once saw an animal and decided it's a 'cat.' But cat is a sound. This cat has nothing to do with the animal. But I have decided it's a cat. So a cat it is.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Animal
Cat
Decided
Sound
Strange
Saw
Strange Thing
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By the time I was 12, I had memorised hundreds of couplets. I could recite for hours poems written by others. I knew I could write a line in metre. But I never dared to do it till I was 33 years old.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
By The Time
Dared
Hundreds
Till
Recite
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I believe that life offers you packages. It doesn't offer you good and bad, otherwise you will choose the good and you will leave the bad. It offers you packages and every package has some good and some bad.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Good And Bad
Offers
Life Good Believe
Package
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Generally, we tend to believe that royalty is only for mainstream Hindi commercial cinema music and maybe some popular ghazal singer or pop singer but we never think that classical music is played at so many places.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Classical Music
Hindi
Royalty
Classical
Pop Singer
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Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Religion
Caves
Doe
Suicide
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Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.
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Globalization
Middle Class
First Generation
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If you are educated in English-medium schools, you get a better view of the world, develop more liberal values, have more gender sensitivity and become more forward looking. But you pay a price because you don't know your own language.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Educated
Gender
Sensitivity
Better World Your
Better World View
Develop
Forward
World View Better
Liberal
Price
Schools
View
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Words are not thoughts, just like bricks are not homes. But houses are made with bricks. If you have less bricks, you will make a small house. The more words you have, the clearer your thoughts, and the more clearly you can convey them.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Bricks
Clearer
Convey
Homes
Houses
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Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Accepted
Common Man
Doors
Mainstream
Morality
Envelope
Norms
Notions
Opens
So-Called
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For an average noun or an average verb, an average mind can quickly create reference. Where did they hear it? See it? What does it remind them of? What is its connection? When was it last used in conversation? What has been my experience with it? A host of memories appear when you hear a word you remember.
Javed Akhtar / Poet
Appear
Noun
Reference
Remind
Verb
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