Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
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My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.
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Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
