Aravind Adiga Quotes

When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.

Aravind Adiga

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: October 23, 1974

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I played with a band in Austin when I was doing 'Friday Night Lights.' It was a blast.

Jesse Plemons

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Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

John Grisham

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America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

John Olver

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After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and they're not going to change their ways. And why should they, given their juggernaut success all over the world?

Robert Gottlieb

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I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

Michael Gambon

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I know what it feels like to struggle with your weight, and it makes me understand why women get attached to numbers on a scale or a dress size. It doesn't mean that I have gotten over all of it myself, because I have good days and bad days just like everyone else.

Stacy London

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Practically everything I've been offered didn't require much beyond looking like me.

Roger Moore

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I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play.

Rob Lowe

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Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.

Ron Carlson

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One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

Joseph O'Neill

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I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?

Josh Homme

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We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.

Debi Mazar

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