Anita Desai Quotes
When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.Anita Desai
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
M. Stanton Evans -
At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
Eddie Perez -
I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
Mandy Moore -
I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
Irina Shayk -
I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
Vikas Swarup -
I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
Obie Trice
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
Vanessa Paradis -
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
Salman Rushdie -
The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett -
You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
M.I.A. -
I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
Sam Elliott
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
Walter Winchell -
I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
Taylor Sheridan -
A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
Camila Alves -
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
Imogen Cunningham -
I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
Orlando Bloom -
In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
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I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.
Chris Stapleton -
Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
Jimmy Fallon -
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
Georg Baselitz -
I always had this fascination with superheroes. Who didn't love Hulk and Spider-Man?
Anthony Santos Aventura -
When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
Anita Desai