Naidu Quotes & Sayings

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in. — Ajay Naidu

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory. — Ajay Naidu

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. — Ajay Naidu

At the Platoon Weapons Division, I got to serve with Major (later Lieutenant General) Milan Naidu. Extremely soft-spoken, Milan was married to Neeharika, who was the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel B Awasthy who had been killed by the Chinese in 1962 at the Lagyala Gompa. Originally from 2 Rajput, Awasthy was moving to Mathura to take over the unit which had finished its NEFA tour of duty in Walong. Unfortunately, that was not to be. Neeharika was an extremely talented singer and was quite the star at most social gatherings. — V.K. Singh

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window. — Ajay Naidu

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked. — Ajay Naidu

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right. — Ajay Naidu

All India radio was worldwide. — Ajay Naidu

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person. — Ajay Naidu

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying. — Ajay Naidu

We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of Lord Ram. — Venkaiah Naidu

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together. — Ajay Naidu

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right. — Ajay Naidu

She is twin-born with primal mysteries, and drinks of life at Time's forgotten source. — Sarojini Naidu

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me. — Ajay Naidu

I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers. — A.R. Rahman

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally. — Ajay Naidu

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. — Ajay Naidu

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. — Ajay Naidu

My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front! — Sarojini Naidu

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe. — Ajay Naidu

To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep. — Sarojini Naidu

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically. — Ajay Naidu

I hear music as narrative. — Ajay Naidu

Cover mine eyes, O my Love!
Mine eyes that are weary of bliss
As of light that is poignant and strong
O silence my lips with a kiss,
My lips that are weary of song!
Shelter my soul, O my love!
My soul is bent low with the pain
And the burden of love, like the grace
Of a flower that is smitten with rain:
O shelter my soul from thy face! — Sarojini Naidu

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease. — Sarojini Naidu

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out. — Ajay Naidu

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11. — Ajay Naidu

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure. — Sarojini Naidu

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. — Sarojini Naidu

When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice. If you are stronger, you have to help the weaker boy or girl both in play and in the work. — Sarojini Naidu

I have devoted my whole life to Physical Culture. I shall devote the rest too for the same. I have seen the degradation in which we are at present. I have travelled extensively and all that I have remarked here is from experience; and my suggestions are to meet the situation. I know they would, if adapted remedy the evil; for, I have studied carefully the position. If we in all seriousness wish to call ourselves the descendants of the mighty Yoddhas of past, if we wish not to cast a blot on the fair name of India, if we wish that India should have a future vying with its glorious past, if we wish that we should gain an honorable and equal place among the peoples of the world it should be our sacred resolve from now to wake up from the sleep as a lion; we should muster muscle and steel the body. For all greatness lies in Culture and 1 should only be too gratified if my scheme could put the youth of the country on the right track to achieve our most cherished Ideals. — Kodi Ramamurthy Naidu

I knew I was happy when I was dancing. — Ajay Naidu

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. — Ajay Naidu

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian. — Ajay Naidu

Now let me ask my countrymen, Have you ever granted a moment's thought to this very vital problem in the building of our nation ? Have you devised any practical remedies to combat this evil ? Will you, my countrymen, go on without making any intelligent effort to lay the axe at the root of this weaknss and misery ? Will you allow the noted chivalry and the noble hardihood of the Indian to sink into oblivion ? Will you make it a thing entirely of the past ? I implore you, I beseech you, I exhort you my brethren in the name of all that is dearest to you to shake off the lethargy, to show to this world that you were sleeping the sleep of lions only, to rise again with redoubled energy and courage to take the work of rebuilding your nation in right earnest. — Kodi Rammurthy Naidu

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part. — Ajay Naidu

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race. — Sarojini Naidu

There's got to be something greater than us. — Ajay Naidu

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it. — Ajay Naidu

I think that I have sold out sometimes. — Ajay Naidu

The Bird of Time

O Bird of Time on your fruitful bough
What are the songs you sing? ...
Songs of the glory and gladness of life,
Of poignant sorrow and passionate strife,
And the lilting joy of the spring;
Of hope that sows for the years unborn,
And faith that dreams of a tarrying morn,
The fragrant peace of the twilight's breath,
And the mystic silence that men call death.

O Bird of Time, say where did you learn
The changing measures you sing? ...
In blowing forests and breaking tides,
In the happy laughter of new-made brides,
And the nests of the new-born spring;
In the dawn that thrills to a mother's prayer,
And the night that shelters a heart's despair,
In the sigh of pity, the sob of hate,
And the pride of a soul that has conquered fate. — Sarojini Naidu

Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife,
Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have place
Amid the tumult of reverberant strife
'Twixt ancient creeds, 'twixt race and ancient race,
That mars the grave, glad purposes of life,
Leaving no refuge save thy succoring face? — Sarojini Naidu

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing. — Ajay Naidu

Every man reaches his destination, if he just keeps walking — Philen Naidu

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see. — Ajay Naidu