Vijay Sethupathi Quotes
If I spend 10 days at home, I'll be dying to get back to the set. I love the thrill of a good dialogue, the buzz of shooting.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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And yet - and yet! He had done the right thing, though the Lord alone knew how it would end. He began to pluck courage from his very melancholy, and hope from his reflexions on the transitoriness of life. He was austerely following Romance as he conceived it, and if that capricious lady had taken one dream from him she might yet reward him with a better.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics.
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If I spend 10 days at home, I'll be dying to get back to the set. I love the thrill of a good dialogue, the buzz of shooting.
