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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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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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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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 wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
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We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities.
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They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.
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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
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The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
