Anand Giridharadas Quotes

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.

Anand Giridharadas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 27, 1981

Topics

SayHeatOfficeAlwaysActBeing

One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.

John Carpenter

LoveMusicGodTodayThinkPowerful

I feel fiery in my life. I feel fiery in my art.

Jennifer Nettles

LifeArtFeelMy LifeI FeelFiery

When we put music on, he kind of kicks in the belly, and it's cool to see how he's not even born yet, but he's already responding to the music. When I talk to him, he kicks as well. It's a very deep connection that I have with my son already and he's not even born. So I'm loving it.

Jencarlos Canela

MusicSonCoolDeepConnectionBorn

A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.

Melissa Pritchard

LifeLoveLiveStoryResultYou

We are demonstrating for services for all the people and not just services for money. It's very important that this message goes to the European Parliament today.

John Monks

TodayMoneyPeopleImportantJust

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.

Jeff Mangum

MeBuildingStartStoryEndBridges

Everybody thinks I'm so serious and the dark side is very accessible to me, so of course it's a challenge to do something funny.

Stellan Skarsgard

FunnyChallengeMeDarkSerious

I guess I just feel very comfortable with being myself.

LP

MyselfFeelBeing MyselfComfortable

Show-running is a very difficult job that includes so many responsibilities; I'm working with the actors, working with directors, writing, making decisions like, 'What fabric is that sofa gonna be?'

Courtney A. Kemp

JobWritingDecisionsDifficultSofa

I'm as honest as I can possibly be when I write.

Brantley Gilbert

I CanWriteHonestI WritePossibly

I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.

Brian McKnight

Keep GoingPeopleThinkDoingPlay

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

William Hazlitt

FriendsWishReadyEverythingUs

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