Pankaj Mishra Quotes
It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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For me, it's really important to take care of my skin. Especially because when I see someone, and they're just so fresh and beautiful, you always notice their skin first. So having a really good skin-care regimen is a must. I just wish I would have started taking care of my skin earlier!
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Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.
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We've always wanted to control the video player for our videos. We really want to evolve how comments on videos work.
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It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
