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"You live more in 5 minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in their lifetime."
"Invercargill, I-N-V-E-R-C-A-R-G-I-L-L. Sometimes I spell it with one 'L' to save ink."
"If you don't follow your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable."
"If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone."
"Its my ruddy life"
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..."
"Tom: Why do you pee on your lemon tree?"
"Fran: [to a staring crowd] What are you looking at? Dirty old men need love too!"
"Based On One Hell Of A True Story"
"The extraordinary true adventure of Burt Munro from Down Under"
"Anthony Hopkins - Burt Munro"
"Iain Rea - George"
"Tessa Mitchell - Sarah"
"Aaron James Murphy - Tom"
"Tim Shadbolt - Frank"
"Annie Whittle - Fran"
"Greg Johnson - Duncan"
"Antony Starr - Jeff"
"Kate Sullivan - Doris"
"Craig Hall - Antarctic Angel"
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.