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V. S. Naipaul Quotes

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Character Yourself Looking Giving Go

When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.

New York College New Now Washington

After four seasons of co-hosting 'Wipeout,' I have been given the opportunity to pursue new directions in my acting career, which I am very passionate about. I am extremely grateful to all those at 'Wipeout,' Endemol and ABC, who have been so supportive of me through these years.

Opportunity Grateful I Am Me Seasons

In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

Good Me Villain Devil You Look

I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Beginning End Want Seen Middle

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

Winning Said Always One Thing Thing

There is something that happens when victims and offenders meet. Offenders and victims are able to see each other as human beings, with names and families.

Meet Human Names See Something Able

We were brought up to think we were amazing. Maybe I was too confident, too full of myself. I found school difficult. I'd get followed home by 20 kids throwing stuff at me. The teachers didn't like me, either. We left Ireland for Manchester when I was 12, and I was happy to go.

Home Myself School Happy Amazing Me

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Work Experience Imagination Personal

Under slavery, families were ripped apart, and it was a desire of black men and black women to be together with their loved ones. Family meant something. Spouses meant something.

Derrick Grayson

Family Women Men Together Slavery

When I got the script for 'Winter Soldier,' I was so excited to see that my character finally gets to punch somebody! So I took tae kwon do three times a week. I wanted to feel like I could hold my own in a roomful of superheroes.

Winter Character Feel Week Three

I love being in the world of the unknown.

Love World Unknown Being I Love

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

Want Europe Out Scotland Would Were

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