"India always changes people, and I have been no exception"

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Source : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (2016). “Heat and Dust”, p.7, Counterpoint

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#People Quotes #India Quotes #Exception Quotes

“You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.”
“What I'm suggesting is, stand for yourself, be for something and the hell with it. Because the hand-wringers and the editorialists and the sigh-and-pontificate crowd will be against you, whatever you do.”

Source : Interview with Joan Walsh, www.salon.com. March 12, 2002.
“I date guys who are five, 10, 15 years older than I am.”
“I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.”

Source : "Homage from Catalonia", www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2005.
“To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.”
“It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of the citizens of big counties-those, that is, that have the status of being "powers" in the world-far from being self-centered or materialistic as they are commonly credited with being, the ordinary citizen and his elected representative all too often turn out to be romantics, ready and eager to sacrifice programs of health, education and welfare for the power and pride of the nation....”
“Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face.”

Source : Interview with Claudia Perry, www.aislesay.com. March 31, 2005.
“You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.”

Source : "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

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