V. S. Naipaul Quotes
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
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Congress ought to wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly representative democracy.
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Honestly, the only way Garden State could have been better was if I played every character. I'm awesome.
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There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
