Amitava Kumar Quotes
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.
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The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
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When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
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I like a scarf with a shirt; it throws it off a bit.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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All the mystery and wisdom of the Masters, when it’s out in the daylight, doesn’t amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade-wonderful illusions. But people don’t want to know that. They want the illusions, the mysteries. Who can blame them? There’s so little in life that’s beautiful or worthy.
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Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
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My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.
