V. S. Naipaul Quotes
To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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I don't have many friends.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.
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I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.
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But my main thing that I would love to see as a fan of 'Glee,' like I said, is to really get into the character and who they are and what they do outside of school. I think that that's interesting. And then of course the themed stuff and the album episodes are all really cool too.
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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
