Vikram Seth Quotes
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
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That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.
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We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.
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I always try to write the best I can.
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I don't even wear miniskirts on a night out, so I definitely won't be wearing miniskirts in the ring.
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We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
