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.Vikram Seth
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
Rafael Palmeiro -
When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman -
Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
Kanye West -
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge -
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!
H. Rap Brown -
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.
Aaron Sorkin
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
Karin Slaughter -
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
Karl Kraus -
Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
Patricia Marx -
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor -
You are just your intelligence.
Kalpana Chawla -
My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
Harland Williams
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
Carlos Ghosn -
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
Nate Lowman -
As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
Zach Galifianakis -
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. Milne -
You know in the West they support realistic forces.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
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?'
Tanc Sade
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I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
Ian Mcewan -
Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
Banksy -
We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
Zachary Quinto -
We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted.
Barack Obama -
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.
Vikram Seth