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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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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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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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.
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Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
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Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.
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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.
