Vikram Seth Quotes
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.Vikram Seth
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
Tea Obreht -
A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.
Kate Middleton -
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
Karen McCarthy -
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas -
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
Quentin Tarantino
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The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I want to win football games.
Victor Cruz -
Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
Malcolm Turnbull -
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood -
I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
Rachel Stevens -
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
K. D. Lang
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
Naftali Bennett -
I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.
Halima Aden -
Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
Laetitia Casta -
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie -
I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
Kaley Cuoco
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters -
The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.
Bono U2 -
People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
Idina Menzel -
I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
Hannah Marks -
I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.
James A. Michener -
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
Vikram Seth