Anita Desai Quotes
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
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I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
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Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.
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All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
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There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul; the real question is what comes afterward. Can the post-Islamic State effort resolve the squabbling likely to arise over numerous issues and bring lasting stability to one of Iraq's most diverse and challenging provinces? Failure to do so could lead to ISIS 3.0.
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Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
