Arundhati Roy Quotes
The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
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The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
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Being a TV actor is quite different from being a movie star, and I always try and highlight my character. It is the reason why I am more inclined to taking frequent sabbaticals: so that when I return, people can identify with the character I play.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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There's kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn't. It's kind of like dating. You either connect to someone or you don't. You can't really say why.
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The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India.
