Monica Ali Quotes
I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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I love girl power.
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Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.
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Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.
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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
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I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.
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I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.
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I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.
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I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.
