Zubin Mehta Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
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The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.
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J-Hope always tries to cheer us up, and I'm so grateful. Actually, I like to call him a new leader for the group.
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Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.
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Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
