V. S. Naipaul Quotes
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
V. S. Naipaul
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci
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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.
Iggy Azalea
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
Beatrice Wood
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
Mahesh Babu
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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.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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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.
Kate Winslet
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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.
Vanessa Carlton
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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.
Madeleine Albright
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
Carly Fiorina
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I'm a little angry in life.
Vincent Cassel
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
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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.
Kami Garcia
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
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It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
Radha Mitchell
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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.
Orson Scott Card
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It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.
Patty Jenkins
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I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
Angelina Jolie
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
V. S. Naipaul
