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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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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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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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we will always hold high.
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I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.
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Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control what data it shares with other users, with advertisers, and with business partners?
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.
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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.
