V. S. Naipaul Quotes
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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You know they're just looking for wrinkles and cellulite.
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There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
