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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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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It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.
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I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.
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'There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance'
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Torture is abominable, things like ripping out someone's nails, or burning someone with a blowtorch. And those who practice it feel a certain power but it's suicidal. They will never get over what they've done. And it creates sadists.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
