V. S. Naipaul Quotes

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

V. S. Naipaul

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• Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

  

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• People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.

  

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• It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

  

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• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

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• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  

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• I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

  

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• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
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• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

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• You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

  

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• Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

  

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• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

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• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

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• I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

  

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• Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

  

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• I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.

  

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• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

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• I don’t want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.

  

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• Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.

  

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• I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

  

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• Actors, you have to wait for people to give you work, or you have to make your own stuff. But standup, I could just say, 'I want to do standup in 30 minutes,' and I can go do standup. Or I could just say, 'I want to do standup in a few weeks in this city.'

  

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• If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Oppression