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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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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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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I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a musical background, I've never studied music, and I don't know music theory at all, so a lot of stuff I discover on my own are things students would learn in the first grade of music.
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Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.
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A good day wasn’t a day without clouds but rather a day when one focused on finding the sunlight behind the clouds.
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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
