"A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don't care about."

-- Sergei Lukyanenko

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“James Porter said to me once, when I was talking about painting, he said, well, that's fine, he said, but you have a good mind so you can't just be a painter; you're going to have to help define the field and keep the tradition going. And he meant walking in his footsteps in a certain way.”

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“I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton”
“This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.”
“I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.”

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“In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.”

Source : "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.
“All the borders in the world are man-made There are no borders, we are all hooked together. Everything is connected. There is no line of demarcation. We are hooked together like the colors of a rainbow, our problem is ignorance, we don't understand that.”
“The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.”

Source : Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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