Pankaj Mishra Quotes
Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
-
I get more tired by travelling than anything.
-
It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
-
When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
-
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
-
My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
-
Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
-
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
-
I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
-
I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
-
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
-
I think it's cool people love to hate me.
-
I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
-
The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
-
You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
-
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
-
The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
-
I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
-
Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?
-
You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
-
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
-
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
-
I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.
-
Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
