V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then you get to your 20s, and you start watching their movies. And then you become an actor, as I did late in college, and then you're really watching them. And they were really very good.
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Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.
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I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.
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Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!
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I do not speak for the White House correspondents association. I`m not a member.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
