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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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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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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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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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
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Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
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One is told that you're either a hot writer, or you're finished and you're over. But of course, the more you hang around and the more you become aware not only of what "reputation" is for other writers, but also what your own reputation is, you become aware that it's much more complicated than the conventional media would have you believe.
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I studied classical music in high school.
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Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.
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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
