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I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

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It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

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You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

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The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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