Quotes About Connection

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Aiyana is my heart that runs around and lives outside my body. We have spent the last nine years so utterly together. Bringing her up almost single-handedly has been exhilarating, exhausting and empowering.

In real life, I am not a lonely person; I have lots of good friends and am active socially. But there are certain aspects of my life when I have felt very alone, utterly alone, and one of them is when I am performing on my own.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

I love to travel, and I think being whisked away somewhere for a vacation is a pretty amazing date. But, I'm really into the basic movie and dinner. It's not where you are but who you're with that really matters.

My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that.

I used to spend not just my summer vacations at my Nani's house in Kanpur but my Diwali and Holi holidays too.

My mom and dad never really had friends, never went on vacations. We stayed home. And I see a similarity there: A general anxiety runs pretty deep.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

While my brother Sultan and I studied in England, my mother Naseem Banu would take us for a holiday to Europe in our vacations which began sometime in July and from there, she would always bring us to India without fail. She was insistent that we never lose track of our Indian values.

We are always influenced because we do not live in a vacuum together with our intentions. We are in a relationship with everything that occurs.

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

I don't aim to make art in a vacuum - you want people to like it.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

People don't exist in a vacuum. They're a result of who raised them and who they love and who frustrates them.

Sangram is my best friend. He loves me more than himself and his absence in my life has brought a vacuum in my life.

How did we kill time before smartphones? I honestly can't recall. I have a vague recollection of flipping through magazines in waiting-room-type situations, but what did we do, say, in line at the post office? Waiting for a bus? Waiting for someone to meet us at a restaurant? I mean, did we just look around or something?

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.

My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague.

We have vague memories of the Eighties. But we were still pre-Internet and pre-cell phone for most of our childhood.

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.