Bharati Mukherjee Quotes
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
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There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
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By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
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I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.
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Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.
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I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
