"If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments."

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Source : R. K. Narayan (1988). “A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988”, p.88, Penguin Books India

R.K. Narayan

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Law Quotes

“I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When we started out, we were among the first. Beijing had no and Shanghai had very few large buildings. At that time, it was all about building, building, building - and then selling, selling, selling. We were working like a manufacturer. Soon, however, we realized that land was running out in Beijing and Shanghai. So we started keeping our buildings, and managing and renting them out. We became landowners. That was the second act.”
“Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 20, 2005.
“I think a lot of nights together have been spoiled by somebody not being able to find a parking spot and saying, "Why don't we just go home?"”
“The free exercise clause of the constitution does not apply to any religion but Christianity. [because none of the other religions are legitimate religions.].”
“A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the work. You're providing the imagination, the words are turning into pictures in your mind, there's an active relationship that's going on.”
“If I meet someone and discover that they're an absolute, very earnest nationalist, it's unlikely that I'm going to get much closer to them. I don't understand them. It doesn't matter where they're from, I just don't get it. I'm a multi-national kind of guy.”
“If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.”

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