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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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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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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The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
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Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the people who accomplished the extraordinary feat of making mankind's greatest achievements look dull, then making it impossible to repeat them.Yet what man has done man can
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The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.
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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.
