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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."
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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."
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"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."
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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
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"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."
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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
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"My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly."
Work
"I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges."
Connection
"Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy."
Love
"Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better."
People
"People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way."
People
"Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed."
Athletes
"When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process."
Family
"I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth."
Romantic
"The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past."
Family
"Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book."
Motivational
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