Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Quotes

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: May 7, 1927 - April 3, 2013

Topics

FreedomLearnWho Am IWayBecome

I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.

Joe Jackson

FoodDayEvery DayTableDidPapa

I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.

Max Thieriot

DoneNowNeverEverythingLittle

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

Robert Mankoff

TruthHumorPeopleTruth IsBad

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

Amanda Lindhout

TravelMeHardBecauseVitalPlane

Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.

Amanda Eliasch

SilentGoldenSwingAwardsOscars

As young parents of three girls, living in California during the late Sixties and early Seventies, Meredith and I couldn't help but be aware of the rising level of dialogue, debate, commentary, and proclamations about the place of women in society and about how to raise females in light of this raised consciousness.

Tom Brokaw

WomenLightParentsSocietyHelp

I am concerned about the erraticness of the dollar. The dollar is up, the dollar is down. We print a lot of dollars. The dollar gets devalued. That is really the concern. If people think the gold price up and down is a reflection of something wrong with gold, no - I say it is something wrong with the dollar.

Ron Paul

ReflectionI AmPeopleGoldThink

I always felt that if I did the right thing, that if I trained hard and worked hard, I'd be rewarded somehow.

Micky Ward

HardThe Right ThingRightAlways

Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

Mike Fitzpatrick

TodayCreditBondsRatingCompanies

I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.

Michel Gondry

WorkCommunityPeopleStoryCreate

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Jose Bergamin

HappinessCoincidenceAlways

I used to run a night club in Fort Myers, Florida called Norma Jean's Dance Club. That was the hottest spot from Sarasota to Cuba.

Diamond Dallas Page

DanceNightRunCubaFloridaClub

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