Amitava Kumar Quotes

Long ago, when I was in higher secondary school in Delhi, I read an essay by George Orwell in which he said there was a voice in his head that put into words everything he was seeing. I realised I did that, too, or maybe I started doing it in imitation.

Amitava Kumar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WordsSchoolVoiceDoingSeeing

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

Joe Cocker

PeopleYouBe CarefulAlwaysDays

If YouTube has plenty of premium content, people will watch that in the same way they watch 'Game of Thrones' or 'Breaking Bad.'

John Cabrera

PeopleGameBadWillWayYouTube

I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.

Matthew Rhys

PeopleThinkingGoDoneWhereRole

The thing about the movie 'Navy SEALs' is that it was just such a waste. The script could've been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.

Michael Biehn

PassionHateTalentBetterYouNavy

Mothers have this huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like, and what we should look like.

Amy Tan

DayInfluenceFeelLookBornAfraid

When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

BestThinkYouBackTryWhatever

For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.

Mary Hunter Austin

GodWorldAirOne ThingAnywhere

Most of me expressing myself comes through my music more than what I wear.

Jorja Smith

MusicMyselfMeMoreThroughWear

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Douglas Horton

SimplePerfectionSkillTrueUp

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Boris Johnson

Tory

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

August Wilson

MePlayMove OnNowHistoricalMove

Yep, I jumped from college to the ABL, just in time for the league to go under.

Anne Donovan

TimeCollegeGoJustLeague

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