Vikram Seth Quotes
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
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Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
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I can completely lose myself into just absolutely satisfying things - a really amazing cheeseburger, a pizza, good fries, a beer. I enjoy being comfortable and eating whatever the hell I like. It's a big thing for me, just having the freedom to be able to do that.
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It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.
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I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
