V. S. Naipaul Quotes

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

V. S. Naipaul

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From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before - whether it was approaching the blues or folk music like 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You': nothing existed like that.

Jimmy Page

MusicYouBluesNewNothingFirst

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

Joe Biden

PlanPennyTaxInvestmentWillSee

Every creature is a word of God.

Meister Eckhart

GodWordEveryCreature

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

Spike Jonze

ChildhoodMemoryThinkParentMy Own

Getting up early is one of the gifts I give myself.

Robin S. Sharma

MyselfEarlyUpGiftsGiveGetting

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.

Roy Lichtenstein

PaintingSeriouslyBedroomPaintGet

If I am lining up for a race, and I know there is someone there who cheats, it upsets me.

Mo Farah

I AmMeSomeoneKnowRaceUp

I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer; I cast my girlfriends in parts, and I suggested to the local kindergarten teachers that we do free performances for the children.

Mili Avital

ChildrenFreeLovedTeachersJust

Our emotions resonate with each other - for better and for worse.

Dean Ornish

BetterEmotionsWorseOurResonate

'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

Chris Crutcher

TruthPainPeopleMeBookTough

The films Sony Pictures Classics has distributed throughout the years have been of great inspiration to me. I'm very excited to find such a great home for 'The Rider.'

Chloe Zhao

HomeGreatMeFindPicturesExcited

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

Craig Ferguson

I AmAm

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