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.Pankaj Mishra
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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.
D. W. Griffith -
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.
Viggo Mortensen -
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.'
Zayn Malik One Direction -
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.
Nancy Roman -
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.
Maira Kalman -
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan -
The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
Ted Shackelford -
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.
Quentin Tarantino -
My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
Katee Sackhoff -
If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
Adam Dell -
I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
Edgar Mitchell
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
Eddie Murphy -
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.
Flip Wilson -
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
Orson Welles -
If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
Victor Garber -
I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
Maggie Hassan -
I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
Eddie Kaye Thomas
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My mom and I are very close.
Lady Gaga -
It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.
Kim Elizabeth -
I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.
Paul Wolfowitz -
The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
Pankaj Mishra