Ravi Subramanian Quotes
I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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The one thing I've learned exploring the deep is that you just can't even begin to imagine some of the bizarre creatures that are down there.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.
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I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.
