Chetan Bhagat Quotes
I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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No two wars are identical.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.
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I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.
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Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
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I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.
