Kamala Markandaya Quotes
you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.
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I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.
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My goal has always been to just be a person who makes great art.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?
