Amitava Kumar Quotes

Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel's more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life and the larger world meet.

Amitava Kumar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeWorldMeetMatterAuthenticity

I studied as an actor at the theatre conservatoire in Quebec, but by the time I got to my third year, I was more interested in directing. There's more to it than helping actors get round a stage: it's a wonderful way of telling stories.

Robert Lepage

TimeTheatreYearActorWayMore

When a child is born, it is immersed in an atmosphere charged with the stellar vibrations peculiar to that moment, which are stamped upon each atom of the sensitive organism by the air inhaled with the first breath.

Max Heindel

MomentChildBornFirstAirBreath

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

John Updike

SportsPastChildGolfIdiotBecome

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

Rory Bremner

ThinkingLookWithoutCookHimself

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

Ruby Wax

MotherMomHardBeingSubjectEver

Writing is a great love of mine.

Micky Dolenz

LoveGreatWritingMineGreat Love

People will feel the way they feel.

LL Cool J

PeopleFeelWillWay

I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.

Dick Van Dyke

FutureTruthFunTruth IsTalking

I'm such a proponent of the theatrical experience and the cinematic experience, and we've reached this point where the magicians are not only giving away their tricks, but they're telling us how they're doing the tricks in advance before you even come to the magic show. It'd be nice to get a little of the mystery back in.

Colin Trevorrow

ExperienceGivingDoingMagicYou

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

Chuck Jones

CreativityAnxiety

I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, 'Oh, that guy.' I want people to start saying, 'Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.'

Brett Gelman

LovePeopleMeWritingStartSaying

Back in 2005, I introduced a thing which, I don't mind saying this - I mean, we stole it, at least in its basic form, from Toyota - it's called World Class Manufacturing. I mean, it's this pretentious title for something which really involves the revisiting of the manufacturing processes of dedication to the removal of waste.

Sergio Marchionne

DedicationMindWorldSayingBack

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Amitava Kumar