Arundhati Roy Quotes

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

Arundhati Roy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkBeginningYourselfFindingYou

I'm really blessed. I love my job. Love going to work. I just love it. I love getting it, I love preparing for it. I love the whole process. I love the whole ritual. I'm really very lucky. Lucky girl.

Jennifer Connelly

WorkLoveGirlJobBlessedProcess

Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.

John Cornyn

WorldBlessingsCountryLibertySaid

Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.

Anatoly Karpov

WorkGameToughStrongYouChess

When I was a kid, it was a little bit exciting working with Peter Weir and Robin Williams, but that faded pretty quickly for me.

Robert Sean Leonard

MeKidLittlePrettyWorkingFaded

I don't regret any decision in my life... not my career, not marriage. Every experience has been so fulfilling in so many ways.

Amrita Singh

LifeMarriageDecisionExperience

For most of the twentieth century, a Minnesotan abroad could fix his home state in the cosmos by invoking for his hosts the name Charles Lindbergh or Bob Dylan, native sons who were claimed by the world and never really returned to the Gopher State.

Steve Rushin

HomeWorldNameNeverFixCosmos

It's always interesting to see how we're able to, with craftsmanship... to bring these cool sustainable materials, cool metals, into the House of Marley and keeping that sustainable movement as well.

Rohan Marley

CoolInterestingHouseMovementSee

The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you find them.

Mary Beard

BuildingDiscriminationYouFind

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

Marv Levy

FatherMorningBirdFunHappyMe

I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.

Jay London

GirlStormWeatherUpOnceTalked

I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

Jon Lovitz

FunnyBaseballFunLookingGameYou

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

Domhnall Gleeson

GoodBestYourselfYouRunTry

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