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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.
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First we were accused of providing arms to the so-called 'bloody regime that was persecuting democratic activists', now it's a new edition - we are supposedly harming the fight against terrorism. That is complete rubbish.
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I hate to say that not everything is politics, but not everything is politics.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
