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Kiran Desai Quotes

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: indian
Birth: September 3, 1971

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Love American Tennessee Read I Love

I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.

Nature Water Beach New York City Up

I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there's so little time before and after performances to explore where I'm visiting.

Time Me World Busy Country Schedule

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Success Men Effort Goal Get Cult

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Heart Courage Losing Earth Defeat

Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.

Michael C. Burgess

Today Face Transportation Situation

I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.

Love Visual Them I Love

When you cut investments in worker training, you're cutting investments in the middle class.

Training You Class Cut Middle

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

Youth Play Disenfranchised

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

Children Time Remember You Go Said

You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.

Mind You Software Human Human Mind

Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television.

Women Early Television Lights Hot

Some of those early photographs of me might as well be sepia. It's always thought that I disclaim television and am too theatre, but the truth is 'The Avengers' bores me now. I was grateful because it catapulted me into stage stardom. It was good. I'm not ashamed of it. But I only did it for two years.

Good Truth Grateful Me Theatre Now

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