"The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past."

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Source : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

Anita Desai

#Book Quotes #Believe Quotes #Past Quotes

“No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.”
“The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.”

Source : "The Third Anniversary Discourse, on the Hindus" (1786)
“I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.”
“What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.”
“Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.”
“I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.”
“Here's my take, for what it's worth: I think that a lot of people in the US, as well as other countries, have the idea that animation is primarily for children, and kids like to be entertained! And animated films here tend to have crazy fantastic situations that would be difficult to do in live action, like with talking animals or monsters or whatnot, and that lends itself well to comedy, I think.”
“If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire.”

Source : Source: deadline.com

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