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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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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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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I like to work at the beginning of projects. Once they get stable, I'll hand them off.
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Every father and son have conflicts.
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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.
