Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.
Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic 'penances. ' Simply say no to yourself once a day, and you will be on the road to sanctity for the rest of your life.
I could not help staring back, for they made quite a contrast: Kate's pale skin and elegant purple suit, Nadira's dusky skin and exotic fiery sari. "Do we clash?" Nadira said dryly. "We certainly do," said Kate. "Would you like me to move?" "Don't trouble yourself.
I don't want to become more famous than what I am. I'm not interested in being in movies that are going to be shown all around the world and get a massive audience, so I'm interested in doing foreign movies as long as it stays an exceptional case and is exotic, but I don't want to go there[Hollywood].
I did not want to be the stereotype of either Bollywood or what Indian actors are usually offered. The exotic, beautiful girl, or the academically inclined nerd. And I wanted to play a lead. . . I didn't settle for less.
It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on.
Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.
Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.
I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
It's been such a huge part of my life, it's hard for me to separate it out. All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood. I was around these amazing people and went to exotic locations. The whole movie-making thing is so magical.
what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.
I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.
Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.
That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.
Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.
Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.
All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.
