Mohsin Hamid Quotes

I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and try to cling to one aspect of that identity to describe what they are: American, Republican, Muslim. These are really incomplete.

Mohsin Hamid

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IdentityPeopleThinkAmericanStop

What I do now, when I'm taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay. I ask what they're offering me in comparison to the guy. I don't care about how much I get paid; I'm in an industry where we're overcompensated for the work we do.

Jessica Chastain

WorkMeCareFairnessNowPay

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

John Malkovich

MoneyProblemMatterNeverMeanOff

I just love striking.

Max Holloway

LoveJustStriking

What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.

Ann Coulter

PeopleCrazySayMeanRealizeArts

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

Sterling K. Brown

LifeExperienceYouUniquePrism

I don't eat fish and chicken and all that. But I will have some eggs. So I'm not technically a vegan. But I eat pretty sensibly, and before a tour, I will usually work out a lot. I'll get a trainer, or I have a guy I've known a long time.

Tom Petty

WorkTimeFishLongLong TimeWill

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Ronald Reagan

BestPeopleHomelessProblemYou

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

Michael Kinsley

MomentWaitingAlikeCenturyBeen

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

Deb Caletti

MarriageSolitudeCompanyOften

I like that message for my own children that you don't have to go with the flow, go with the crowd. That you can be your own person. You can be an individual, and that's valid, and that's important.

Bobby Cannavale

ChildrenYouPersonGoImportant

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Koestler

ArtMomentKnowForgettingProper

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

William Kennedy

WorkMusicBestEgoSelfLiterature

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