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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I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
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I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
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Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
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The fact that I've managed to find a husband who understands and respects everything I do is astonishing.
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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.