Quotes by indian authors

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you. Amitabh Bachchan

Saying You Fear Think About Facing Audience Always Frightening

Whatever I do becomes controversial. Amitabh Bachchan

Whatever Becomes Controversial

My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country. Amitabh Bachchan

I have never been a superstar and never believed in it. Amitabh Bachchan

Superstar Never Been Believed

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage. Amitabh Bachchan

People Cinema Realistic Group Percentage More Small Select Perhaps Make Acceptable Audience Western Very Little Who

I think that it's important that actors keep getting challenged every day. For every creative person, it's a terrible moment when they say they have done all they want to do. Amitabh Bachchan

Day Creative Every Day Important Every Think Say Terrible Person Done Getting Want Moment Creative Person Keep They Say Actor Challenged

What I do on film is part of my profession. Amitabh Bachchan

Part Profession Film

'What will people say?' is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with. Amitabh Bachchan

People Will Girl Feeling Every Say Indian People Say Up Grows

The body is an amazing system. Amitabh Bachchan

Amazing System Body

I miss the camera each moment and each day. Amitabh Bachchan

Day Miss Camera Moment Each Each Day

I had two surgeries during the early part of 2012, and I was advised to restrict my work load. Amitabh Bachchan

Work Restrict Had Part Advised Early Load Two

It's a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies on set, the women working on set is a huge percentage. There used to be no women. It was just the leading lady's mother, perhaps the hairdresser and the makeup person. Amitabh Bachchan

I have fans across the globe. Amitabh Bachchan

Fans Globe Across

I like poems and keep sharing them online. Amitabh Bachchan

Online Poems Sharing Like Them Keep

Each employed immigrant has his or her place of work. It is only the taxi driver, forever moving on wheels, who occupies no fixed space. He represents the immigrant condition. Amitava Kumar

Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition. Amitava Kumar

Writing Important Has-Been Haunted Feature Identity Mistaken Course Been Province Fiction Which Manner Much Cognition

Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities. Amitava Kumar

Better Imagination Possibilities Shape Also Sure Makes Stories Us Multiply

For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance. Amitava Kumar

People Radical Distance Projected Liberation Members Some Developing Abstraction Developing Countries Countries Particularly Ideological Comfortable West Left Fantasies Whom