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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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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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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My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
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We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God's service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest.
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One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.
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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.
