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“I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.”

Years Political Used Father Rooms Party Leader Subjects Members Prison Congress British Fighter Evening Living Room Unfamiliar Prominent Freedom Fighter Locality Congress Party

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.”

People Want Feels I Can Walks Subjects Comfortable Photographer Shyness

Author:Ryan McGinley

“I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.”

Ifs Firsts Bigs Remember Growing Up Growing Happened Heard Subjects Jokes Jersey

Author:Oscar Nunez

“Death is not my best subject.”

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Author:Judd Nelson

“There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I wouldn't change it, or who I am.”

Magic Subjects Who You Are Who I Am Specialists Mastermind

Author:Chris Ofili

“Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.”

People Ifs Way Country Moving Views Issues Subjects Independence Moving Forward Crucial Sensible Scotland Scottish Referendums

Author:Keith O'Brien

“I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!”

Mean Matter Dark Subjects Not Sure Subject Matter

Author:Tea Obreht

“When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.”

Knows Writing Matter Speak Brain Subjects Calm Block Plot Translations Subject Matter

Author:Tea Obreht

“The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.”

Thinking Want Needs School Teacher Subjects Consumers Shops Goods

Author:Daniel Pennac

“And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by his representatives, hath given his consent; and this, I will venture to assert, is the great basis of British freedom; it is interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the Constitution must be destroyed.”

Persons Important Law Lost Given Subjects Bases Constitution British Destroyed Patriotic Representatives Venture Consent

Author:Joseph Warren

“Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.”

Heart Religion Faith Language Given Subjects Secular

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.”

School Religion Consciousness Subjects Infinite Various Fixed Personal Relationships Syllabus

Book:The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.”

Writing Book Science Subjects Tasks Artistic Novelists Attractive Dramatic Textbooks

Author:Max Born

“I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.”

Thinking Years Today Difficult Subjects Election Factors Discourse Controversial Public Discourse Election Years

Author:John Poindexter

“Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.”

Film Used Subjects Havens Civilization Shapes Western Western Civilization

Author:Eric Rohmer

“Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.”

Mean Land Subjects Emotional India Income Farmers

Author:Kushal Pal Singh

“Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.”

Book Real Might Found Written Subjects Importance Conducting

Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.”

Years Believe Reason Subjects South Climate Remarkable Fearful Drought Wales Commencement

Book:Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales

Source: Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales

“But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.”

Art Space Subjects Painting Art Is Aim Illustration Decoration

Book:Working Space

Source: Working Space

“Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.”

Subjects Greatness Shapes England Faults British Despite Germany Present Day Worthiness

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.”

“It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.”

Mind Long Important Real Lying Answers Study Focus Teacher Teaching Subjects Buddhism Balance Answers To Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.”

People Self Talking Subjects Treats Reproach

Author:Anatole France

“The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.”

Wells Book Would Be Able Teacher Subjects Information Institutions Library Expensive Publication Adapted Containing Public Library

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

“I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.”

Knows Facts Subjects Dabbling

Author:Joshua Lederberg

“As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.”

Thinking Mind Body Space Path Wonderful Subjects Walking Gender I Realized Pursue March Urban Demonstration Parades Urban Life

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.”

Way Book Fall Games Term Virtue Subjects Media Source Discipline Messages News Treats Access Reporters Default

Author:Ron Suskind

“I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.”

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Author:Bruno Tonioli

“As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.”

Trying Different Enough Character Facts Process Subjects Source Surface Novelists Layers Questioning Reporters Observing Beneath The Surface

Author:Amy Waldman

“As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.”

Needs Reality Deals Subjects Source Add Confusion Make Sense Contradiction Reporters Coherence

Author:Amy Waldman

“I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.”

Writing Years Firsts Character Stories Would Be Imagination Fiction Novel Subjects Skills Research Useless Articles Reporters My Imagination Profile

Author:Amy Waldman

“And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.”

Wells Done Deals Subjects Terrible Nuts Well Done Underrated

Author:Eli Wallach

“But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.”

Should Decision Poor Subjects Objects Involved Program Etc Decision Making Supporter Making Decisions

Author:Barney Frank

“Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.”

Knows Firsts Mistake Heard Subjects Committed Combination Artificial Principal Legislators Reformers Fatal Mistakes

Author:Josiah Warren

“Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.”

Believe Wells Courses Party Subjects Media Ought Majority Intention Concentration

Author:Barney Frank

“Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.”

Trying Play Fantasy Subjects Honest Mirrors Photographer Photograph

Author:Tim Walker

“Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.”

Reason Feelings Subjects Visible Rejects Rationalism

Book:Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

“Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.”

Years Has Beens Political Subjects Philosophical Motherhood Disputes Surrogates

Author:Thomas Frank

“... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.”

Needs Different Law Order Asks Records Subjects Effects Produce Demand Function Lays Rewards Discourse Obliged Knowledge And Power

Author:Michel Foucault

“A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.”

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.”

Men Two Matter Turns Left Party Issues Subjects Effects Poet Aspect Fortune Disappointment Various Versions Consideration Plumber

Author:Thomas Frank

“Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.”

Inspirational Effort Situation Subjects Produce Buddhism Clarity Addresses Best Effort Knowledge And Power Occupy Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.”

Knows Want Literature Subjects Interviews

Author:Kurt Loder

“I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.”

Thinking Kind Matter Humanity Quality Subjects Instinct Western Following Guts Subject Matter

Author:Anson Mount

“The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I loved that book.”

Thinking Way Kind Book Matter Stuff Bits Sides Subjects Influential Subject Matter Refined

Author:Isaac Marion

“Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.”

Ifs Writing Facts Subjects Objectives Autobiography

Author:Lisel Mueller

“The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.”

Has Beens Matter Issues Comedy Subjects Scared Subject Matter Being Afraid

Author:Bernie Mac

“I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.”

Way Want Book Matter Lasts Force Focus Subjects Shapes Tests No Matter What Capture Geography Sociological Test Of Time

Author:David Maraniss

“No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.”

Said Sin Practice Subjects Catholic Mortals Relief Homosexuality Damnation Forthcoming Catholic Faith Mortal Sin

Author:James McGreevey

“A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.”

Feels Mean Different Song Subjects Emotional Aspect Mere Repetition Autonomous Wallowing

Author:St. Vincent

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