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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: indian
Birth: 1956

Topics

Heart Great Me Literature Characters

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

Work People Me Bad Person Mean

I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests.

Problems Think Security Engage Seem

When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.

Alyssa Sutherland

Love Character Compassion Judge You

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Stephen Gardiner

French Approach Most Houses Largest

I'm actually pretty frugal with my money.

Money Pretty Frugal Actually

I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, 'Hey, you know who would be good for this? McKean would be good for this.' And they hire me, and if they like me, they hire me again, or the word gets out.

Good Me Friends Plan You Know

I've gotten emails from people who purchased items from an infomercial, only to find out that the shipping was more expensive than the item itself. The lesson: If you truly want to order something you see on TV, go online to the product's website and see if you can find out more information.

People You Information Lesson Find

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

Good Sports Conflict Listening Think

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Denzel Washington

People Sweetest Poorest

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

Goals History Understand Overcome

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Life My Life Everything Opposite Did

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

Man Start Care Place Street Never

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