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 couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.
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I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.
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I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
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It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.
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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.
