Anita Desai Quotes
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.
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I think It would be quite fun to play Bobby Riggs.
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My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
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I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
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I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
