Rajeev Shukla Quotes
I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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I don't have to pitch movies. I'm no good at it!
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To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.
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You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
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We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
