V. S. Naipaul Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
-
What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
-
Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
-
Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
-
I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
-
I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
-
What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
-
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
-
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
-
A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.
-
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
-
To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
-
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
-
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
-
I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
-
I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
-
This idea of mutual appreciation and partnerships and investment in our people is very important to me and will continue to be important.
-
I think that the women's magazines and a lot of those quick tips for better sex, I think that they do people a disservice, sometimes, because they become very focused on - they're thinking, 'Okay, I read that I should do this, and am I doing it right?'
-
Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my first lesson. Clothes do not make the man. The Justice sported long sideburns and Buddy Holly glasses long after they were fashionable. And he wore loud ties that I am confident were never fashionable.
-
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.
-
For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much; I gave them so much; I loved them so much; we part ways, and it's OK, we part ways.
-
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
