Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes
A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
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Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
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Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.
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I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
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When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.
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As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.
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Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.
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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
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A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
