Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes

It was my first day at work - and beginning my training on the job, I was given the job of writing cheques and entering their details. The branch was surrounded by hordes of people... soon, they had to close the gates to manage the crowds, and they started pushing in.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts - I didn't know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.

Joe Wright

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When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

Andrew Nikiforuk

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You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.

John Lee Hancock

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I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.

Andy Roddick

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One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

Stewart Udall

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I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

Tony Campolo

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The majority of the time... the people that are critiquing and bashing me, they're making me more relevant, I would think. If you didn't want me around, then just don't talk about me, and try and make it silent out there.

Roman Reigns

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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

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They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim.

Michael Strahan

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I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.

Misty Copeland

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I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.

Min-sik Choi

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Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.

Lleyton Hewitt

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