Viswanathan Anand Quotes
I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.
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Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
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I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
