Makarand Dehejia Quotes & Sayings

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book. — Mahmoud Darwish

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — W. H. Auden

I already know what boxers do; I've been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare. — Tyson Fury

TV stars are cool. Even if their characters are less than admirable, they come across as somehow sympathetic, maybe even neighborly. They are, after all, people you invite into your home every week. If you don't like them, you won't watch them.

Movie stars, by contrast, are hot. They have to blaze so fiercely that they fill a screen forty feet high and demand the attention of a crowded theater.

That's why very few TV stars have graduated successfully to features. It requires not only different skills but a different personality. You have to go from amiable to commanding.

Likewise, some movie stars are simply too big for television. Jack Nicholson is riveting on-screen, but you wouldn't want him in your living room week after week. The television simply couldn't contain his personality. — Walter Jon Williams

Why were memories so independent? So jealous of corroborating detail? — Gregory Maguire

Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition. — Akio Morita

I don't live by people's compliments because if I live by their compliments, I will die by their criticism. I have learnt not to live by bread alone; not by what people can feed me, I proceed from every word that comes out from the mouth of God. — Patience Johnson

Jesus doesn't divide the world up into the common and the sacred; he gives us eyes to see the sacred in the common. — Rob Bell

They tore Joseph coat of many colors as evidence of his death and dreams but God brought together his life for his People, to prepare them posterity — Ikechukwu Joseph

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government. — George Osborne

I have never met a writer who didn't need an editor, and an editor without a writer is a person without a job. It is a fraught and often-imperfect relationship, of course, dating back to the beginning of time. You remember; after God moved upon the darkness, he proclaimed, "I've put in place some very wondrous illumination here!" And Mrs. God gently suggested the more pithy: 'Let there be light. — Alex Beam