Shyam Selvadurai Quotes

In the late 20th century, it became possible to travel between cultures, between the old world and the new, with great ease. So when you go back, you take the changed person with you who, in turn, changes things that otherwise might have stayed the same.

Shyam Selvadurai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: February 12, 1965

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GreatTravelWorldYouBackLate

I don't want to sound too bleeding heart, because I know how lucky I've been, but I never knew how hard it was to be the lead in a television show.

Jessica Raine

HeartTelevisionKnowWantLucky

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Robert Smithson

ArtDayI AmRepresentationExist

As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him.

John Irving

HateOthersHatredHimReasonSide

So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.

Robert Lanza

FutureRedYouBloodFlowLeg

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

Andy Grove

Growing UpGrowingNiceOperaSinger

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Jeff Koons

ArtYouAliveEverythingConnecting

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

Jeff Koons

LifeChangeArtPeoplePossibilities

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

Stephen Rea

GreatArtThinkDownAlwaysI Think

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.

Ruth Rendell

I AmPeopleThinkI CanKnowWant

Dad would come home from doing odd jobs, and sometimes he'd come home late at night with lumber, and he'd rumble around with all this wood in our small place. We'd finish putting it away, and then we'd play that piano. I'll be eternally grateful to him.

Johnny Mathis

HomeGratefulNightSmallDoing

In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.

Denis Villeneuve

IdentityHockeyCanadaWorstSocial

I'm a video game enthusiast. I love video games! They were a huge part of my upbringing in their early form, when I was all about 'Dig Dug' and 'River Raid.' As they evolved, so did my music-making, and we just kind of grew up together like cool friends.

Deadmau5

LoveTogetherRiverCoolVideo Games

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