"When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter."

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Aravind Adiga

#Running Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Party Quotes

“To fuel my body, I am relentless about never eating anything that isn't of this Earth.”
“Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.”
“I'm not going to say that I'm the best, we respect our champions. Floyd's been doing this a lot longer than me, he's been a lot of mega fights and I won't dare say that I'm better than Floyd Mayweather.”
“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
“I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.”

Source : "Four Energetic Women Behind America's Literary Arts". Interview with Daniela Gioseffi, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
“The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.”
“Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.”
“As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.”

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