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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You are just your intelligence.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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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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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.
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Changing course is never easy.
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One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.
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People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.
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My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
