Arundhati Roy Quotes
In those early amorphous years of life, when memory had only just begun, when life was full of Beginnings and no Ends, and everything was Forever
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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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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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.
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In those early amorphous years of life, when memory had only just begun, when life was full of Beginnings and no Ends, and everything was Forever
