"I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world."

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth."

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"I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty."

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"Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place."

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"I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis."

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"I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring."

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"They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'"

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"It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching."

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"I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world."

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