"I turned atheist in the 90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left."

-- Amish Tripathi

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“I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and I've had moments in my life where being female is considered to be a tremendous advantage - emotionally, career-wise. Personally, I have nothing to prove. But I'm tremendously curious about human nature. Female life is so incredibly underexplored in cinema, so these stories feel very exotic.”
“I like men who are intelligent and sensitive.”

Source : "Actress Kate Del Castillo Denies Affair With Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Admits She ‘Likes Him’". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.
“The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.”

Source : MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1870). “OUR VILLAGE”, p.406
“Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.”
“They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.”
“We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art”
“I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.”
“Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.”

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