Vikram Seth Quotes
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
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I want to win football games.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.
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I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.
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I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.
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From my perspective, the world's shaped me more than anything else. It's a feedback loop.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
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I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
