V. S. Naipaul Quotes
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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I'm a sucker for entertainment and escapism as much as the next person. I like silly and lowbrow stuff, but I get nervous when I indulge in that too often. I want to know what's going on in the world. I have a morbid fear of being surprised by bad news. I want to anticipate everything.
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!
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When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.
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I loved 'Solid Gold!'
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
