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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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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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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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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The lesson of that victory was that Soviet citizens must still heed Lenin's warning of 1921
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
