Arundhati Roy Quotes

If you ask me what is at the core of what I write, it isn't about 'rights', it's about justice. Justice is a grand, beautiful, revolutionary idea.

Arundhati Roy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: November 24, 1961

Topics

BeautifulJusticeMeYouWriteAsk

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.

Jennifer Coolidge

FakeDoingYouPlayActorHire

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

John Dalberg-Acton

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Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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I rented a house in Favignana, off the coast of Sicily, in the mid or late '90s. There was a revolving door of visiting friends and family - we played games, painted our faces, went swimming naked, cooked big meals, rode around on motorini, and had great cappuccinos.

Amber Valletta

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When I was much younger, I realized that when I was handling something very large, and I was on my own doing that, that my breathing rate would increase, and that would affect my ability to think as well as I normally would. So when that starts happening, I slow down.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

ThinkSlowDoingDownMy OwnOwn

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Shirley Jackson

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Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

Ronnie Wood

WordsWaitingStartThinkNiceOut

I don't know if you could call me a natural-born runner.

Mike McCready

MeYouKnowCallRunnerCould

With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do.

Luis Alberto Urrea

NamePoliticalMatterLike

I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.

Josh Brolin

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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Josh Billings

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When I talk about movies like 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Stepford Wives,' I really noticed that these movies were able to address fears surround the women's lib movement in a way that was engaging, not preachy, but fun.

Jordan Peele

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