Hugh Grant I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I… probably can’t! – Hugh Grant Awful Quotes Book Quotes Cling Quotes Creative Quotes Fantasy Quotes Script Quotes Truth Quotes Writing Quotes But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you’re an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way. I don’t have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.
Ravi Shankar I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the ‘fifth Beatle.’ In India, they thought I was mad. – Ravi Shankar
Shane West When what’s around you – such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 – it’s kind of been what’s been there for me. – Shane West
Abhijit Banerjee Here is an entirely banal idea that I think has the potential to change the world: Take evidence seriously. Taking evidence seriously does not mean privileging numbers over all other forms of knowledge – theories, narratives, images. Nor does it mean the kind of radical skepticism that questions everything to the point where no action is possible. – Abhijit Banerjee
Caroline Knapp Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. – Caroline Knapp
Bharati Mukherjee Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world ‘another Calcutta.’ – Bharati Mukherjee
Lauren Ash When you’re doing a pilot, you don’t know where it will end up, and then you’re being put up with the best of the best. – Lauren Ash
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