Vikram Seth Quotes
If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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You are just your intelligence.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.
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I think it was at 16 when I forced myself because my dad had nagged me for an entire year. Like, 'Come on, sing for people. You have a nice voice,' and I just wouldn't do it. One evening, I just decided, 'Screw it, I'll do it.' I remember it was really bad. But I did it. So that was good.
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If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.
