Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

V. S. Naipaul Quotes

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Appreciate Someone You Done Need

I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.

Feel Radio Like Changed Much

Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

Andreas Katsulas

Character Better Year You Play Know

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.

Life Walk New York Restaurant You

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Life Fight Slavery Action Reaction

That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.

Character Freedom Man Me Short Play

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

Jonathan Lethem

People Battle White Class Poor

It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.

People Someone Problem Dead Out Who

Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.

Golf Island Double Something Almost

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

Camera Person Important Actor Stage

I think K-Pop is a type of expression.

Think Expression I Think Type

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

Culture Artist Tide Dignity Turn

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Past Literature Philosophy Sober

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by V. S. Naipaul