Kiran Desai Quotes

If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.

Kiran Desai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

Joakim Noah

ArtMeInterestingWaySeeI See

There's tons of little tricks that that go into making the perfect shoe, but I think color, comfort is really important and different sizes of heels.

Jessica Simpson

ColorThinkPerfectComfortGoShoe

I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.

Jenson Button

FitnessWantRightEatWhatever

Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

Matt Taibbi

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As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.

Steve Israel

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There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Sophocles

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I try to write fun - though difficult and challenging - things for actors to do, because I know if they're having fun, they're going to give it everything they got.

Tracy Letts

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My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

Michael Zaslow

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Joseph Conrad

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I had a lot of respect for Jeremy Renner as an actor before I worked with him, because I was very impressed with what he did in 'The Hurt Locker.'

Denis Villeneuve

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Where a new guy may only know one or two ways to do something, I know all of the moves, and I've forgotten more stuff than the newer guys might even know.

Dean Ambrose

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They took my 30s, my 40s, my 50s, but what they couldn't take was my joy. I couldn't do nothing about the years, but I could control my joy... I kept a smile on my face; I kept love in my heart.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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