Vikas Swarup Quotes
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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My head was always in books.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
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Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
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I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.
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I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
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When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
