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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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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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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Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
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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.
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
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The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.
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Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.
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I miss the archipelago, the islands outside of Stockholm, the most. That's where I spent my summers as a kid. Going on a boat and island-hopping. In August, we have a crayfish party.
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telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
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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.
