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V. S. Naipaul Quotes

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: trinidadian
Birth: August 17, 1932

Topics

World Small Place Young Up Bigger

I love meeting readers and booksellers and am beyond overwhelmed and gratified at the reception. Each day feels like an adventure.

John Corey Whaley

Love Day Adventure Meeting Beyond

Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body.

Body Play My Own Inside Own Role

The critics don't bother me.

Robert Stigwood

Me Critics Bother

Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.

People Think Young Young People Lot

Everyone lives by selling something.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Selling Everyone Something Lives

One of my pet peeves in athleisure today is clothes that make a woman feel square and one-dimensional.

Today Pet Woman Feel Clothes Square

I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.

Sonia Sotomayor

Justice Decision Day Losing Start

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Death Mind Me Think Place Always

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

Douglas Coupland

Fun Brain You Look Back Nobody

I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

Claire McCaskill

Work Home Day You Election Labor

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Sunshine Sweet Mozart

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

Father Music Me Sister Theatre Same

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