Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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God is never too late, nor too early, but just on time.
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You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
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The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.
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The agency is who it is because of many, many, many chapters that needed to happen.
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I believe that we will benefit more by globalisation.
