Vikram Seth Quotes
I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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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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Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.
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Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.
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When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.
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I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
