Anand Mahindra Quotes
There is no business in the world - I don't care what it is, whether it's I.T. or manufacturing - that does not have what I may refer to as a blended resource base. You have high-end work. You have engineering work. You have some local knowledge you require. Then, you have some very low-cost work to be done.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.
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When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
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I can't imagine how many kids around the world will look at pictures of Pluto and think, 'I want to grow up to be a scientist.'
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To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.
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There is no business in the world - I don't care what it is, whether it's I.T. or manufacturing - that does not have what I may refer to as a blended resource base. You have high-end work. You have engineering work. You have some local knowledge you require. Then, you have some very low-cost work to be done.
