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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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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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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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
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One can't feel old in a day or overnight!
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I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
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All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
