Arundhati Roy All my books are accidental books – they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, ‘Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?’ I don’t care. – Arundhati Roy Accidental Quotes Books Quotes Care Quotes Engaging Quotes Guardian Quotes Reacting Quotes Real Quotes Review Quotes Thinking Quotes When I decided to write ‘The God of Small Things’, I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust. Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.
Doris Burke In 1990, I was an assistant coach at Providence College, but I knew I wanted to get married and have children. I did not think I could be a great basketball coach and be a great mom. – Doris Burke
James Wolfensohn The Bank had never used the word ‘corruption’ at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments. – James Wolfensohn
Evan Mock Being around the best surfers in the world, the best water photographers, the best people making films, all those things – that made me interested in how to do everything. – Evan Mock
Kevin Costner I don’t give up. I’m a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course. – Kevin Costner
N K Jemisin As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change. – N K Jemisin
Johny Hendricks I’m done fighting at welterweight. Unless they open up a 175-pound division, I’m moving up to middleweight. – Johny Hendricks
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