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'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
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PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.
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In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.
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Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.
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We're just trying to make 'The Darkside' its own brand. It's Fat Joe, but it's 'The Darkside.' We come with 'Vol. 2,' make it crazier than 'Vol. 1.' By the time 'Vol. 3' come, we got a problem on our hands.
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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.
