Mohsin Hamid Quotes

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

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• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

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• You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

  

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• The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.

  

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• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

  

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• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

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• Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.

  

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• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

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• I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.

  

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• When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

  

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• We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

  

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• The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

  

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• I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.

  

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• The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.

  

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• Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.

  

  Abbey Clancy
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• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

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• If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.

  

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• It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure, ... I can't tell people what flag to fly.

  

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• For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

  

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• If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

  

  Feng Zhang
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• I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.

  

  Tony Kushner
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• Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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• I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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• There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

  

  Mohsin Hamid
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  • Prophet