Vikas Swarup Quotes
I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.
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Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.
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My desire for fame is infinite.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
