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.Amitava Kumar
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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 -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
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 -
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 -
I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
Sade Adu
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.
Kate Micucci -
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 -
On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.
Mandy Patinkin -
There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I have no way of knowing that your story is not true - but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me - your life, your view of life - is the lie.
Orson Scott Card
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Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience.
Alex Steffen -
A rental car in Savannah, Georgia. In the middle of touring, we had a week off. I have a problem with flying, so instead of going home, my wife came to me and we rented a car and drove around. Just pulled off on some dirt roads...
Brandon Flowers The Killers -
I have a suicide impulse.
Hal Holbrook -
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.
Amitava Kumar