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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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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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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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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Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.
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I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have.
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Sleater-Kinney becomes bigger than the three of us. It pulls us along, in a way.
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I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
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There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.
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The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning. (p. 30)
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
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I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.
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People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.
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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.
