V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
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If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.
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Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
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Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.
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Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.
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So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.
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How else are you supposed to deal with people who like terrible things? Hit them with a shovel till they stop, that’s how.
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I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I'm always looking for things to be better.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
