Vijay Sethupathi Quotes
Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
