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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Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.
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My goal's always to connect and relate to my audience. I want them to leave my show feeling like they got to know me better - not only that, but like we could be friends. I want people to leave going, 'Oh my gosh, I could totally hang out with her!'
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As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.
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I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus.
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If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
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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.