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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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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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.
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What seems like comfort and security one day can all be taken away the very next.
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If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
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I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
