Vikas Swarup Quotes
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
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I want to love life.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.
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I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.
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Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
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I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.
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I think it's when I won the Youth Olympics I thought, 'I can really get gold in London.'
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He's a curious man; a shrug of the shoulders and a wink and that's him. He's never thought it odd that his daughter cross-dresses for a living and sells second-hand purses on the side. But then, he's never thought it odd that his daughter was born with webbed feet. (p.61)
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I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.
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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.