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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I just love to see people having a good time.
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And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
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When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.
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Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.
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I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.
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People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
