I think Quote by Amitava Kumar Download Open image “I was pretty aimless as a youth, especially in Patna. I think reading saved me.” — Amitava Kumar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare I think Me Reading Think Youth
As a boy from Patna, I've always dreamt of a chance to showcase my talent. — Abhimanyu Singh Copy Share Image
I have got full faith in my people - people of Patna Sahib and the family of Bihar. — Shatrughan Sinha Copy Share Image
Before moving to Delhi at the age of 17, I had only travelled to Patna or Varanasi outside Belwa. — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
I was 19, so validation played a huge role in my taking part in Miss India. — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image
During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind,… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
More than anything else it pleases me to know I've made people back home in Bihar proud of me. — Abhimanyu Singh Copy Share Image
It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Bihar has always drawn me, ever since I was a child, brought up on the stories about my grandfather Babasaheb Soman. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group,… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps,… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?' — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes.… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
I'm not here trying to convince anybody to vote for Donald Trump. I think every Christian needs to make up his own mind about… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
I think you can get, as a player, stuck in the mindset of trying too hard to prove yourself. — Trinity Rodman Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I think I am against stereotype. Generally, Asian guys are more quiet - they study and have a good work ethic. Generally, I have… — Bobby Lee Copy Share Image
I thought I fought a really good Orlando Salido. I never let him get into his fight. I knew what I needed to do… — Mikey Garcia Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
