Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.
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I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it does - I'll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I'm at home, I'll find myself two blocks from my house.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.
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Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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Guys are very simple.
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I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
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A loafer never works except when there's a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
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A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.
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Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
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The scientific answer is relevant so far as concerns the sense-impressions... For the rest the human spirit must turn to the unseen world to which it itself belongs.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
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We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
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Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.
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As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.
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It is too expensive to have a bricks and mortar presence everywhere.
