M. F. Husain Quotes
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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I love so many styles of music.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.
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The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.
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Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.