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We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.
Aravind Adiga
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Aravind Adiga
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 23
Film Director
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Madras
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Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.
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Let animals live like animals let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.
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Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
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