Vijay Sethupathi Quotes
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.
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In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.
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No, I don't belong to a retirement community.
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It takes a tough, stand-up governor to stand up to the president of the United States - speaking out against the president, speaking out against his policies and, more than that, having actual policies that will help expand health care while... Trump is trying to diminish it for Illinois families.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
