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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When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.
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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 believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.
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Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.
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Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.
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Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.
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I just love ballads. I am obsessed with them, so I've written a lot of those. They just kind of touch on all the different types of emotions. Though, I think poppy, feel - good songs are underrated and not seen as artistic enough.
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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.
