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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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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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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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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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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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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If I have a day off, I'll get up at three in the afternoon and make some noodles. I fix my makeup and then party until 5 A.M.
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I love listening to games on the radio... you can't see what's going on.
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I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
