Mohsin Hamid Quotes
The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
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'When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much.'
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I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak.
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You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.
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It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.
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Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.
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I know we disagree with Mr. Trump on this area. I'm hopeful that we can convince him that making our tax code more pro-growth will make America stronger, but to do that, it's not enough to simply buy American: we need to sell American all throughout the world.
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Somebody once observed - and the observation did him credit, whoever he was -that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping.
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I thought 'RV' stood for 'Recreational Vehicle.' No! It stands for 'Ruins Vacations.'
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History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.
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The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.
