Hanif Kureishi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
-
Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
-
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
-
The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
-
The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
-
I love anything to do with history.
-
Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
-
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
-
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
-
Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
-
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
-
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
-
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
-
I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
-
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
-
I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
-
The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
-
I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
-
Everyone in my family still lives in Kalamazoo.
-
For me, horror movies are a real escape.
-
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
-
You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.
-
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
