Bharati Mukherjee Quotes

I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.

Bharati Mukherjee

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• 'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

  

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• I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

  

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• You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.

  

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• I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.

  

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• They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head.

  

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• If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

  

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• I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
  • America
  • Red
  • Pool