Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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What to leave out is the first thing the artist has to decide; a painter who 'held the mirror up to nature' would spend his life on the leaves of one landscape. The work of art’s fluctuating and idiosyncratic threshold of attention-the great things disregarded, the small things seized and dwelt on-is as much of a signature as anything in it.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.
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The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.
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Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active.
