Vikram Seth Quotes
My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
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My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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I just roll with the punches.
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Money just draws flies.
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
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Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.
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My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
