Pankaj Mishra Quotes
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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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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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
