Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

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• Snobbery just inhibits you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Just
  • Snobbery

• I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• I'm a good Catholic boy.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Boy
  • Catholic

• I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Shopping

• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Never
  • Horse

• You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Family
  • You
  • Years

• Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • History
  • Tradition
  • Congress

• I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Love
  • Job
  • Best

• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Job
  • Experience
  • High

• Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Together
  • Understanding
  • Sit

• I was always taken in and out of school.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Taken
  • Always

• For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Famous

• Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Heart
  • Growth
  • Economy

• He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Honor
  • Dangerous
  • Himself

• As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Balance

• The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Process
  • Self
  • Meaning

• Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Think
  • Crazy
  • Design

• When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Comedy

• All the appreciation I have been receiving has been very encouraging. It pushes me to do better.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Appreciation
  • Encouraging

• There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that's why it's called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Country
  • Why

• Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Friends
  • Comedy

• The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Political

• Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Comedy
  • Fake
  • Laboratory

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger