Anita Desai Quotes
People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other.
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I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.
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One of the challenges of secularism is that it's not something outside us. In too many instances, secularism has so permeated the church that sometimes it's the frame of reference even for very good people, people who have a strong allegiance to the church.
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You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.
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I think that I'm, like, an introverted extrovert. At the end of the day, when I get done doing hair at the salon or shooting a day of 'Queer Eye' or whatever, I definitely want to come home and, like, order pasta and sit with my cat or just one person or no people.
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People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
