Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.
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Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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I just love to work hard.
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In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.
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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
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I'm an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.
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I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.
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So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
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PSU banks are sole lenders to capital-intensive firms.