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Amitava Kumar Quotes

A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History Fiction Magical Mundane Been

I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.

Myself Fire Song Kitchen Burger Out

I used to take pride if my kids were playing basketball, and I'd be there, and I wouldn't say anything. People were obviously expecting me to yell and scream at the ref and at them and everything. I wouldn't say anything.

People Me Basketball Pride Say Take

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

Work Someone First Always Movement

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

Work Creative You Healthy Way Sit

I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

Never Got Southern Like Gothic Did

I have a huge scarf from Hermes that I bought the day I signed my record deal. I had never had an Hermes scarf. And I ran to buy one, thinking, 'Now, this is a symbol, I need one, I need an Hermes scarf,' which actually now I'm quite embarrassed about. Most of the time I twist it so much that no one notices it, and just bundle it around me.

Time Day Me Thinking Scarf Never

My mother gave up everything for me. In Yekaterinburg, she had a job and an apartment in the centre of the city and her whole life. And in Moscow - nothing.

Julia Lipnitskaya

Life Mother Job City Me Nothing

I want to help transgender individuals who might be struggling realize that they have to love themselves and stay true to who they are because if they keep moving forward, and keep a positive attitude, then things will get better.

Positive Love Attitude Moving Forward

West Ham was the best choice for me on the back of my best season in Ligue 1. I don't think there was much room left for progress in Ligue 1.

Best Progress Me Think Back Choice

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.

War Saying House White News Say

I worked at Sir-Tech, and then when I got old enough to go to college, I went to college but continued to work at Sir-Tech to put myself through college.

Brenda Brathwaite

Work Myself College Enough Go Old

When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.

Good I Am Think Language Doing You

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