Pankaj Mishra Quotes
I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
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As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
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Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.
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The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.
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When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
