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"Conor Leslie made a comment in passing to me that I now say to everyone I meet: You could be the most brilliant shade of orange, but they want blue, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so release it. Another one, from an interview with Bryan Cranston: Auditioning is your job until you book a job, and when that job is done, auditioning is your job again. Mentally, it can release you from a lot."
"I’m always quite fond of Canadian greats. I was probably too young when I got onboard the Cronenberg train, but I remember watching the Dead Ringers film for the first time. I think I knew I was a bit strange when I watched The Fly, but that solidified it for me because I loved it."
"It goes back to sonic frequency and how that can translate energetically and get me in my body. I have a dance background, and I was in choir growing up. I used to be very shy, so I’d express myself through movement and sound. I always end up going back to that as my safe comfort place."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.