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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I never dread going back to Congress.
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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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I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.
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If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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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.
