Pico Iyer Quotes

In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment of e-mails and opportunities and papers around my desk, for an hour, and just sit on our 30-inch terrace in the sun, reading something sustaining, whether 'The Age of Innocence' or the latest by Colm Toibin.

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• I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
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• Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Me
  • Care
  • Bored

• If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Trying
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• We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Country
  • May
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• If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Place
  • Conservative

• I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Cat
  • Judging
  • Performance

• I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Thought
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• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
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  • Waiting

• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
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  • Small

• Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Sex
  • Dying
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• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

  Nancy Horan
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• Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

  

  Tara Strong
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• I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

  

  Randy Johnson
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• I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Performances

• Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Something

• Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children.

  

  Cherie Blair
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  • Time
  • Women

• In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

  

  David Icke
  • People
  • Reading

• Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know it's nothing. It's a job. Sometimes, I try something different, and I'll watch out of curiosity. Generally, I don't watch too much of what I do. Movies are basically the same, except it's more money spent on sets.

  

  David Hedison
  • Time
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• Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • History
  • Humans

• Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Heart
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• In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment of e-mails and opportunities and papers around my desk, for an hour, and just sit on our 30-inch terrace in the sun, reading something sustaining, whether 'The Age of Innocence' or the latest by Colm Toibin.

  

  Pico Iyer
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