Jitin Prasada Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
-
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
-
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
-
To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
-
I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
-
I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
-
I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
-
I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
-
Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
-
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
-
I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
-
I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
-
I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
-
When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
-
Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
-
When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
-
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
-
I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
-
I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.
-
I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.
-
In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.
-
What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
-
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
-
I work in a hostile atmosphere, and my voters are the only strength I have.
