Karan Mahajan Quotes
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
Quotes to Explore
-
I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
-
Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
-
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
-
I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
-
Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
-
What really matters is what's on the inside.
-
I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
-
You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
-
In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
-
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
-
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
-
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
-
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
-
Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
-
Let the path be open to talent.
-
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
-
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
-
How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.
-
I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. It's a lot easier said then done because I especially like things very structured and I don't like change, but it's part of life; you've got to just deal with it.
-
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
