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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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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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
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When I was a kid, I wrote to the BBC, and the producers sent me a huge package through the post with 'Doctor Who' scripts. I'd never even seen a script and couldn't believe that they actually wrote this stuff down. It sort of opened a door.
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The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
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Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.
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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
