Amitava Kumar Quotes

A long, negative review I wrote of Rushdie's novel 'Fury' earned me a rebuke from the writer: He told an administrator at the college where I teach, and who had invited Rushdie to come speak, that he wouldn't share the stage with me.

Amitava Kumar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: March 17, 1963

Topics

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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.

Robert Jarvik

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Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

Ann Rule

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Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

Michael Jackson

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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

John Tillotson

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As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.

Stephen Kinzer

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I don't know why people don't feel like being positive is much more powerful than being negative.

Shonda Rhimes

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I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

Monica Lewinsky

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To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

Dirk Benedict

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My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

Colin Farrell

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The consumer is deciding what they want to see and when and how, and filmmakers are more aware and accepting of the fact that success is not predicated on your movie showing in a traditional theater for a certain amount of time.

Ava DuVernay

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I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.

Peta Wilson

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New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

Pete Hamill

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