Vikram Seth Quotes
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.Vikram Seth
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
Nadia Comaneci -
I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
W. H. Davies -
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig -
I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
Jack Horner
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
Nat Wolff -
For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
Gabrielle Zevin -
I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
Paloma Faith -
As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
Rachel Hurd-Wood -
I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
Laura Marling
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. Wells -
I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
T. J. Miller -
All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
Aaliyah -
Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
Olivia Munn -
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
Nassau William Senior -
It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
Daisy Berkowitz
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This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
Amiri Baraka -
Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.
Ann Cleeves -
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
Ulysses S. Grant -
To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
I. M. Pei -
It will be funny in about 10 years.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead -
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
Vikram Seth