Vikram Seth Quotes
The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!Vikram Seth
Quotes to Explore
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
Zachary Quinto -
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.
Parker Posey -
They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
Parker Posey -
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
A. R. Ammons -
You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
Madchen Amick -
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
Jack O'Brien -
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
Cao Yu -
Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
Paloma Faith -
If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
Edgar Wright -
Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
Barry Marshall -
Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
Walter Huston
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
Irving Babbitt -
People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
Yoko Ono -
There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
Iris Chang -
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo -
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Wendell Phillips -
I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
Samantha Power
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There are different flavours of sexiness.
Queen Latifah -
We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
Bob Inglis -
I try to not be too hard on myself regarding my diet. I've always been a workout-to-eat kind of a girl.
Jennie Finch -
I'm a curious person, and I always like to test new waters, and I've always jumped into the cold water and then started to think about how to swim.
Jochen Zeitz -
The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
Vikram Seth