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.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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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.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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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.
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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.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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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.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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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.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I think it's important to talk to my sisters when I have a big decision to make.
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I always say that I was dancing and acting in the belly. I feel like it's something I was born with and inspired by my family since I grew up backstage, watching them perform. I guess it was just a natural path for me.
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I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
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Apparently, I hear from people I always play strong women. I don't see them that way.
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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.
