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.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• I am not an autobiographical writer.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Writer
  • Autobiographical

• I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writer
  • Worked
  • Journalist

• 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.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Money
  • Job
  • Always

• I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Think
  • You
  • Outsider

• If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Dead
  • Hostility

• Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Way
  • Writer
  • Own

• 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.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • People
  • God
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• 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.'

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Poetry is the deification of reality.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Poetry

• Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Leaving

• I'm a very conceptual writer.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Writer
  • Very
  • Conceptual

• I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Writer
  • Only
  • Unemployment

• Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Reality
  • Know

• I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Weird

• There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• I think obviously vaccinations work. Vaccination has worked for many, many years. I am sensitive to the fact that there are some families who disagree but the difficulty is if I have a kid who is suffering from an illness who is subjected to a kid who walks into a room without vaccines that could kill that child and that's wrong.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Work
  • Suffering

• Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.

  

  Eric Schlosser
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Focus

• Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

  

  Al-Waleed bin Talal
  • English

• The greatest hope for traumatized, abused, and neglected children is to receive a good education in schools where they are seen and known, where they learn to regulate themselves, and where they can develop a sense of agency.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Education

• My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

  

  Amitava Kumar
  • Reality
  • Writer
  • Outsider