Pankaj Mishra Quotes
After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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Women are sacred.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
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I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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My dad took me to my first movie.
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After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
