Aravind Adiga Quotes
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they’re all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.
Aravind Adiga
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
Kate Winslet
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
Yogi Berra
I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
Ice Cube
You need to train your brain to be positive.
Nargis Fakhri
Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
Malcolm Gladwell
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince
If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
Nate Diaz
The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai
You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
Pam Grier
Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
Faye Resnick
I'm a California Angels fan because that's the first game my dad took me to see, and they stuck with me.
Bill Engvall
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
David Guterson
Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.
Tom Stoppard
If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.
Mark Zuckerberg
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they’re all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.
Aravind Adiga
