Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes
When there are good postings available, the people who choose who is to come to that particular position, they will always have, at the back of their minds, a fear that, 'If I take a woman, she might prioritize her family over the job and, therefore, not be available at times when her presence is required.'
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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As a kid, I loved leading 'dance camp' in my garage for the neighborhood kids. I would choreograph really intricate routines for us to perform. It was so much fun!
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I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
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Words do not pay for my dead people.
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In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
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Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
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When there are good postings available, the people who choose who is to come to that particular position, they will always have, at the back of their minds, a fear that, 'If I take a woman, she might prioritize her family over the job and, therefore, not be available at times when her presence is required.'
