Vikas Swarup Quotes
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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I think it's important for service to be a part of your life instead of an option. It's awesome to make it a point to do something that's gonna make the world slightly better than you left it.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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While the subject matter of my novels could not be further removed from the stuff I used to trot out at the Comedy Store, the delivery of the material employs many of the same techniques.
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The conversations have been cordial. [Donald Trump] has been open to suggestions, and the main thing that I've tried to transmit is that there's a different between governing and campaigning, so that what he has to appreciate is as soon as you walk into this office after you've been sworn in, you're now in charge of the largest organization on Earth.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
