- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Others Quotes
Looking past yourself, in different ways.
Several of these others quotes come from performers describing why they act at all — to inhabit lives beyond their own rather than just their own experience. For a lighter comparative angle, see Like quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Films like 'Shaan,' 'Sholay,' 'Muqaddar Ka Sikander' and so many others... they've been a part of my growing up years.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really excited when films like 'Kaala Paani,' 'Maachis,' 'Chandni Bar' and others came my way. The sheer fact that I would get to portray various emotions was thrilling.
- Bolster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.
- Class Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a novelist is the adult version of a kid creating a make-believe world. But unlike a child, a writer of fiction has to come up with a structured story, one that has as much meaning for others as it has for her.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away entirely with the mud, and give the farmer plenty of time to meditate on lofty subjects. That is only one theory. I have many others.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020