Sam Tsui Quotes
My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
Quotes to Explore
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.
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I didn't go to college.
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I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
