Vikas Swarup Quotes

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Tell

• I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Beginning

• Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Propaganda
  • Momentum
  • Masses

• I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Remember
  • Learning

• Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Girl
  • Day
  • Child

• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Freedom
  • Whether
  • Rests

• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Smart
  • Profound

• Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • American
  • Black
  • Friday

• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Emotions
  • Hollywood

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Men
  • Wear
  • Clothing

• Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Financial
  • More
  • Accountants

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • You
  • See
  • Yoga

• Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Law

• French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Real
  • Bad

• Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Power
  • Together
  • Free

• NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Television

• Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'

  

  Bob Brown
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Myself

• We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Writing
  • Advice

• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Time
  • Wonderful
  • Rejection