Chitra Ganesh Quotes
It's interesting to think about connecting the dots within an archive in a different way than linearly or teleologically. It's a great delight to make art or use language or just have ideas, and put them together in a very unexpected way. Art gets categorized historically, geographically, by medium, not necessarily by concept or repeating imagery, or feminism or femininity.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
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I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
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New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.
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I love everyone over at Netflix. They're all fantastic and an absolute joy to work with.
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Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah
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Not if the butcher had become a butcher simply in order to have a chance of murdering the baker. One must always look one step behind, my friend.
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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
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I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of, instead of hiding the structure and making it look organic and natural, we're going to put the structure on the outside. But most of the time, at least for me, all I could attend to [in Swing Time] was that act of structural self-consciousness.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.
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Language alone includes all the senses in interplay at all times. (p. 253)
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It's interesting to think about connecting the dots within an archive in a different way than linearly or teleologically. It's a great delight to make art or use language or just have ideas, and put them together in a very unexpected way. Art gets categorized historically, geographically, by medium, not necessarily by concept or repeating imagery, or feminism or femininity.
