Vikas Swarup Quotes
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
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Everything is designed to help you sell out.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.
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I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.
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The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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Owen Wilson is an actor, but think of him as a sort of secret agent. He has an offbeat, indie-movie sensibility. Every so often, however, he infiltrates some big-budget movie he clearly doesn't belong in - 'Anaconda,' 'Armageddon,' 'The Haunting' - and struggles valiantly to stop it from sucking.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.