Monsoons Quotes - Page 2

• My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

  Mira Nair

  People, My Family, Loud

  "Decade: Mira Nair on “Monsoon Wedding”". Interview with Jacque Lynn Schiller, www.indiewire.com. February 22, 2002.

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• With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.

  Francine Prose

  War, Army, Night

  "Reading Like a Writer". Book by Francine Prose, 2006.

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• the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

  Ruth Rendell

  Weather, England, Climate

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