Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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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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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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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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If you try to be better every day, more miracles happen in your life.
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If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.
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People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.
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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
