Vikram Seth Quotes
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Quotes to Explore
-
Ozzy has dyslexia.
-
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
-
Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
-
I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
-
I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
-
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
-
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
-
Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
-
I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
-
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
-
You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
-
My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
-
The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
-
I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
-
All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
-
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
-
I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
-
If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because they're picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus.
-
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
-
Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.
-
You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
-
Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
-
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
