Hari Kunzru Quotes
There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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I think it'll be an emotional day. It'll be exciting for me, mostly it'll be exciting for them. I'm not going to get to come here a lot, so, it'll be a special day, hopefully.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
