Vikram Seth Quotes
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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Nothing comes at all -- never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
