Vikram Seth Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
-
Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
-
Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
-
I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
-
I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
-
It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
-
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
-
Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
-
I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
-
Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
-
Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
-
In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
-
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
-
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
-
It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
-
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
-
If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
-
No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
-
I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.
-
Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
-
I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.
-
For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
-
I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
-
I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
