Bharati Mukherjee Quotes
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
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Yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
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The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
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I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warm-heartedly, everything would come all right. It's all the cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.
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The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
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At the Super Bowl, when Beyonce was thrusting her hips forward in a very suggestive manner, if someone else had done that, it would've been a national scandal. I thought it was ridiculous.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.
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I get migraines a lot. I get them when I'm stressed out. My brain freezes, and I just try to get through that.
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He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.
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I'm not a pretty-boy kind of a girl; the Brad Pitts don't do anything for me.
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There were points I wanted to stop acting. We got so busy and didn't get to see our friends a lot, and I was like, 'Wow, I'm kind of over this.' But then we started really having fun on 'The Suite Life.'
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Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.
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Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
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I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.
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'You asking me the way?' 'Yes,' I said, 'since I can't find it myself.' 'Give it up! Give it up!' said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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There's nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things.
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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
