V. S. Naipaul Quotes
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
Quotes to Explore
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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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.
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When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.
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Having spent two years at AOL, I would love to be able to go back to that industry knowing what I know, and I think I would be able to help the traditional media side to better understand what is coming at them, how to deal with it.
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Honestly, production when you first start can be difficult to wrap your head around.
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Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one.
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A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.
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Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow. Whatever that looks like on a given day. If I can get quiet enough to truly check-in with myself, I usually end up on the right track.
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
