Vikram Seth Quotes
Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?Vikram Seth
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
Valerie Plame -
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
Barry White -
In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
Garry Shandling -
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
Adam Jones
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
Federica Mogherini -
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
Joanne Rowling -
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
Nathan Deal -
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills -
I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
Patrick Demarchelier -
At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
Patrick Lencioni
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
Dakota Fanning -
Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
Kage Baker -
I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
Karl Lagerfeld -
If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
Vanessa Paradis -
Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
Barry Levinson -
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
Ed Royce -
It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
Jet Li -
An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
Vikram Seth