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"No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else."
"The noblest art is that of making others happy."
"[singing] Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for/Been searching in the dark, your sweat soakin' through the floor/And buried in your bones there's an ache that you can't ignore/Taking your breath, stealing your mind/And all that was real is left behind..."
"Everyone is special, and nobody is like anyone else. That’s the point of my show."
"Hyperbole isn't the worst crime. Men suffer more from imagining too little than too much."
"Sir I, I know I don't come from much but I will take care of your daughter and I will give her a life as grand as this one."
"They don't understand it, but they will."
"Oh, I am counting on it."
"Yeah, we are going to change that name. I think you're Irish."
"You don’t need everyone to love you. Just a few good people."
"Father is sending me to finishing school."
"I don't know what my future will be."
"I wish...for happiness like this forever."
"For you and you...and for your father."
"Yes, I do, indeed. Refunds are available at front box office."
"God, no. But I've seen the crowds. People leave your show happier than when they came in."
"Which is much more than I can say from my play."
"Who is that?"
"I guess I'll just have to tell the queen either all of us go or none of us will…"
"It is hard to understand wealth and privilege when you're born to it."
"I gave most of my earnings to charity, Mr. Barnum...to orphans and widows."
"I sometimes don't feel like I belong here."
"I was born out of wedlock and that brought shame upon my family."
"And life always manages to remind me that I don't deserve a place in this world."
"And that leaves a hole that no ovation can ever fill."
"Are we all invited?"
"Mr. Barnum said he left a ticket for me."
"I've always wanted to go to the theater."
"Never had somebody look at you the way your parents looked at me. The way everyone would look at us."
"Hugh Jackman as P. T. Barnum"
"Zac Efron as Phillip Carlyle"
"Michelle Williams as Charity Barnum"
"Rebecca Ferguson as Jenny Lind"
"Zendaya as Anne Wheeler"
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.