Amitava Kumar Quotes

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.

Amitava Kumar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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CriticismWayMoreComplexTemper

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

Andrew Motion

LiveCulturePoetryChoiceDumb

I grew up in the happiest home - my parents were really adventurous, and I was very lucky.

Maye Musk

HomeParentsLuckyAdventurousUp

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

Max Lerner

YourselfHurtOthersAgainstAny

I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'.

Michael Wolf

BestThinkUniverseNewExcited

The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself.

Lisa Randall

WomenYourselfThinkYouSayWill

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Jonathan Swift

MenGoldSometimesWhereKnowsVein

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

CJ Adams

CharacterGreenYouActingBecome

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

Cindy Sheehan

PowerLustCountryBeenWhoOur

When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.

Bobby Locke

YouYearsUpGetSmallerHoles

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

LoveWomanLove IsFreeBelieveUs

I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

Pete Townshend

TodayThinkArtistDramaGoMore

Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.

Scott Stossel

PeopleThinkI CanSayKindAlways

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