Anurag Kashyap Quotes

I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.

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• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Exist
  • Defeat
  • Possibilities

• My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!

  

  J. D. Souther
  • History
  • Opinion
  • Miracle

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Say
  • Writer
  • Behind

• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Forgiveness

• In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thing

• When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Money
  • Food
  • Struggle

• I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Language
  • Certain

• Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Live
  • Him
  • Where

• My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Moral
  • Legal

• Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann.

  

  Otto von Bismarck

• What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Done
  • Bad

• We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Up
  • Camping

• 'Malays abhor the state of celibacy. To remain unmarried was and is considered shameful. Everyone must be married at some time or other. The result

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Time

• And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Snow

• I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart

• I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

  

  Bob Brown
  • Democracy

• Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never ending perfection is impossible, it could always be different, better, or worse. It's not important, just process and striving to be like the man who walks the trapeze maintaining balance.

  

  Dave Liebman
  • Different
  • Important
  • Artist

• There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • Know
  • Trust

• I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am... Here's a picture of me in drag, fuck it - which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing... There's not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you're trying to say the right thing...

  

  Misha Collins
  • People
  • Attention
  • Moments

• I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.

  

  Anurag Kashyap