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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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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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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Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.
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A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind of enlightenment. An obvious example would be Charles Manson or Shoko Asahara who is the person responsible for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.
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Obamacare does much more than provide coverage to the previously uninsured - it improves the quality of coverage for all of us. Critical cancer and other health screenings are free. Women and people with disabilities or chronic conditions are no longer charged more - or priced out of the market altogether.
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A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
