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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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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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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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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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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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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When we're in the studio, and we sing that first note on that record, you're committing to being a Backstreet Boy!
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Tempus edax rerum.
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I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.
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In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
