Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes

I say what is required to be said.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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• You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Business
  • You
  • Know

• Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Day

• It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Lost

• If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Want

• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Mystery

• I'm in an interracial marriage.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Marriage

• I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Live
  • Nature

• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Old
  • Rate

• American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • American
  • Giving

• The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Up
  • Always
  • Blood

• The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Rap

• When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. I tell myself, in the long run, it's the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Up
  • Long
  • Family

• Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Friends
  • Want
  • Looking

• He detested them for forcing helplessness upon him.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, 'they can’t leave anything alone.'

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Alone

• The language of art is constituted precisely by the fact that it speaks to the self-understanding of every person, and it does this as ever present and by means of its own contemporaneousness. Indeed, precisely the contemporaneousness of the work allows it to come to expression in language. Everything depends on how something is said.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Understanding

• If compelled to indicate my religion on an immigration blank, I might be tempted to put down the word 'Taoist,' to the amazement of the customs officer who probably never heard of it.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Immigration

• Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me 'Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?' And I say 'Good God, I hope not!'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Good
  • God
  • America

• If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you’ll be feeling what they’re feeling. If you’re separated, it’s not a hard thing to do at all.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Human being
  • Connected
  • Destroying

• I'm a bat. All my greatest, creative ideas come at night. So I hardly ever sleep.

  

  Jessica White
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undertake, succeed, and, in the average of cases, are advanced in proportion to their efficiency; while the incompetent, society soon finds out, ceases to employ, forces to try something easier, and eventually turns to use.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Natural

• Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Hands

• The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

  

  Johnny Gimble
  • Magic
  • Playing
  • Wears

• I say what is required to be said.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya