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 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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• A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

  

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• so the moral of this week is: if u do something really, really stupid in front of someone ur just getting to know & they still think youre awesome, then you got yourself a friend.

  

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• In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.

  

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• In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

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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.

  

  Chetan Bhagat
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