Vikram Seth Quotes
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
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Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.
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Don't let something hurtful in your past hold you back from what you want to do. Be brave.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
