Mohsin Hamid Quotes
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I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.
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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything.
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I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.
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In the world of book writing, an author really gets to have control over what he or she writes, which is why it is very satisfying. With the help of a great compatible editor, you really have something in the end you can call your own.
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I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
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I do some weightlifting, a lot of different weight stuff, strength and conditioning stuff, a little bit of everything.
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The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.
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Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.
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So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.
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One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled.
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I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.
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Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.
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I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.
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A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world.
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Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.
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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
