Pankaj Mishra Quotes
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
Quotes to Explore
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Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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My work... is my legacy.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.
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I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
