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Hari Kunzru Quotes

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

Hari Kunzru

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1969

Topics

Flower People Hands Go Presentation

I beat Randy Orton, one of the all-time greats, you know. Why can't I beat a Brock Lesnar?

Jinder Mahal

You Know Why Beat Randy All-Time

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

Meat Loaf

Hair Doing Actor Park Started

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

Ann-Margret

Character Me Accept Critics Image

Just because your body is losing inches doesn't mean you're losing weight or vice versa. It's not about the weight: it's about building lean muscle, which is going to increase your metabolism and then allow you to lose weight quicker.

Anna Kaiser

Losing Building You Lose Body Mean

I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.

Alvin Lee

Music Fun Me Compromise Guitar Feel

People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.

Sophie Monk

Money People Me Free Think Friends

I do believe all actors are smart.

Ron Silver

Smart Believe

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Lord Byron

Beginning Necessity Sense Atonement

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

Jonathan Kozol

Culture Guilt Way Clever Neurotic

As far as personal philosophies go, I think you should know your ending. I know that's radically different from a lot of other writers who just organically like to find the story. Other than that, I try different things and mess around. I'm still just playing a good bit.

Jonathan Hickman

Good Ending Story Think You Find

I love doing 'The Price is Right.' It's so much fun. I love meeting everybody and giving out prizes, especially when it's not my money. It's really a happy place, and everybody is all jazzed up.

Drew Carey

Love Money Fun Happy Giving Doing

I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.

Christopher Moore

Time Think Generation Young Kind