Bunker Roy Quotes
In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.
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I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.
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The cabinet has been shaken about a bit, but it's the same old jar of jellybeans.
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In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.
