April 2: Notable Births, with Quotes
Enjoy quotes from these public figures, some currently gracing the headlines and others who made their mark in years past, born on April 2.
Ajay Devgan or Ajay Devgn, actor and director (April 2, 1969–present)
“Women all over the world have been suppressed. Today I feel women are angrier than men.” —Ajay Devgan
Askmen. “An Interview with Ajay Devgan.” Askmen, https://in.askmen.com/celeb-interviews/1097051/article/an-interview-with-ajay-devgan.
“I feel lazy to wear cables while doing an action scene. We did a sequence in ‘Singham Returns,’ wherin I did the action sequence without the cable. I had good fun doing that. Rohit designs all the action sequences keeping me in mind.” —Ajay Devgan
Askmen. “An Interview with Ajay Devgan.” Askmen, https://in.askmen.com/celeb-interviews/1097051/article/an-interview-with-ajay-devgan.
“80 per cent of the times my films haven’t worked. I’ve known it while shooting the film.” —Ajay Devgan
Askmen. “An Interview with Ajay Devgan.” Askmen, https://in.askmen.com/celeb-interviews/1097051/article/an-interview-with-ajay-devgan.
Marvin Gaye, singer and songwriter (April 2, 1939–April 1, 1984)
“I think if I had to choose another profession I’d like to be a judge because I’m very capable of determining what’s right and what’s not.” —Marvin Gaye
Symes, Phil. “Marvin Gaye: ‘I was terribly disillusioned with life.’” The Guardian, March 26, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/26/marvin-gaye-rocks-back-pages-disc-music-echo-1971.
“I can remember as a child I always kept myself to myself and I always dug nature. I used to fool around with worms, beetles and birds, and I used to admire them while the other kids were playing sports. It was like some strange force made me more aware of nature. Those kids playing sports were also showing love – love for sport. And if we could integrate all types of love into one sphere we’d have it made.” —Marvin Gaye
Symes, Phil. “Marvin Gaye: ‘I was terribly disillusioned with life.’” The Guardian, March 26, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/26/marvin-gaye-rocks-back-pages-disc-music-echo-1971.
“I feel that people in Europe are different from Americans – I think your soul is a little deeper. What a helluva thing I’m saying! There you seem to understand my blackness, my forcefulness and my earthiness. I feel you understand and I get the vibration that you care a little more.” —Marvin Gaye
Symes, Phil. “Marvin Gaye: ‘I was terribly disillusioned with life.’” The Guardian, March 26, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/26/marvin-gaye-rocks-back-pages-disc-music-echo-1971.
Alec Guinness, actor (April 2, 1914–August 5, 2000)
“I never had any success in Hollywood. I made three movies in Hollywood and they were all flops. The pictures people think of as Hollywood hits, such as ‘Bridge on the River Kwai,’ were in fact British productions.” —Alec Guinness
Ebert, Robert. “Interview with Alec Guinness.” RogerEbert.com, May 2, 1982, https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-alec-guinness.
“I’ve worked all over the world, often through no conscious decision I was aware of at the time, other than perhaps to visit a place I hadn’t been before.” —Alec Guinness
Ebert, Robert. “Interview with Alec Guinness.” RogerEbert.com, May 2, 1982, https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-alec-guinness.
Emile Zola, novelist (April 2, 1840–September 29, 1902)
“Blow out the candle: I don’t need to see the colour of my thoughts.” —Emile Zola
Zola, Emile. “The Project Gutenberg eBook of Germinal, by Émile Zola.” Project Gutenberg, September 23, 2021, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56528/56528-h/56528-h.htm.
“The best is, is it not, to try and live honestly in the place in which the good God has put us?” —Emile Zola
Zola, Emile. “The Project Gutenberg eBook of Germinal, by Émile Zola.” Project Gutenberg, September 23, 2021, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56528/56528-h/56528-h.htm.
“Who was the fool who placed earthly happiness in the partition of wealth? These revolutionary dreamers might demolish society and rebuilt another society; they would not add one joy to humanity, they would not take away one pain, by cutting bread-and-butter for everybody. They would even enlarge the unhappiness of the earth; they would one day make the very dogs howl with despair when they had taken them out of the tranquil satisfaction of instinct, to raise them to the unappeasable suffering of passion.” —Emile Zola
Zola, Emile. “The Project Gutenberg eBook of Germinal, by Émile Zola.” Project Gutenberg, September 23, 2021, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56528/56528-h/56528-h.htm.
Hans Christian Andersen, author (April 2, 1805–August 4, 1875)
“The most wonderful fairy tales grow out of that which is reality.” —Hans Christian Andersen
Andersen, Hans Christian. “Project Gutenberg’s Andersen’s Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen.” Project Gutenberg, March 14, 2018, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1597/1597-h/1597-h.htm.
“Death is an electric shock which our heart receives; the freed soul soars upwards on the wings of electricity.” —Hans Christian Andersen
Andersen, Hans Christian. “Project Gutenberg’s Andersen’s Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen.” Project Gutenberg, March 14, 2018, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1597/1597-h/1597-h.htm.
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, author (April 2, 1725–June 4, 1798)
“Our flames burnt as brightly, but with more restraint, in the dining-room as in the bedroom. In the very air of the bedroom of a woman one loves there is something so balmy and voluptuous that the lover, asked to choose between this garden of delights and Paradise, would not for one moment hesitate in his choice.” —Giovanni Giacomo Casanova
Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo. “The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Memoires of Casanova, by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.” Project Gutenberg, March 14, 2021, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2981/2981-h/2981-h.htm.
“Happiness is gained by complying with the duties of whatever condition of life one is in, and you must constrain yourself to rise to that exalted station in which destiny has placed you.” —Giovanni Giacomo Casanova
Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo. “The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Memoires of Casanova, by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.” Project Gutenberg, March 14, 2021, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2981/2981-h/2981-h.htm.
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