The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.
Jhumpa Lahiri

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.
Roger Waters

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
Stephen Ambrose

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
Sheryl Crow

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
Christiane Amanpour

At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be.
Dick Murphy

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
Beverly Cleary

It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
B. R. Ambedkar

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Franz Schubert

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
Rebecca West

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.
Marvin Bower

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
William Feather

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
Max Bill

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.
Andrea Dworkin

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
Francois Truffaut

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Walter Kaufmann

Love is based on imagination.
Olivier Martinez

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
Joseph Barbera