Vikram Seth Quotes
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured.
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.
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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
