Mohsin Hamid Quotes

Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

Mohsin Hamid

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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

John Owen

FoodManExerciseTemptationKnife

The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.

Anna Friel

CharacterBabyBackSayWhereFilm

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

Mia Wasikowska

PressureYoungDancersInsecurities

If everything is a little baggy, then everything will look sloppy when you layer one piece on top of another. Your sport coat should easily fit over a shirt and a fine-gauge sweater.

Michael Bastian

YouLookSweaterWillTopOver

There's no blueprint; getting married doesn't make you boring, having kids doesn't make you boring, having money doesn't necessarily have to make you boring.

Amanda Palmer

MoneyYouBoringGetting Married

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Stephan Jenkins

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I think about what 10-year-old Tony would want that 40-year-old Tony can make.

Tony DiTerlizzi

ThinkWantMakeWouldI ThinkAbout

Unless we know where we've been as a country, we don't know where we are or where we are going.

Ron Chernow

CountryKnowWhereGoingBeen

If we can find a way to enforce our laws and keep people from coming into our country illegally while maintaining a strong legal immigration system, I think that's going to benefit everyone. If you come here illegally, and you commit a crime, you're not going to be able to stay in our country.

Ronna McDaniel

PeopleStrongThinkLegalYouFind

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

Michael Korda

NumbersSalesReadersCorrespond

After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for them and do publicity for free just because I like a book. Some people think of it as hubris or careerism, but I love to champion books. You can't use your whole sphere of influence just to help yourself.

Jonathan Evison

LoveCommunityYourselfPeopleBook

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

Colin Baker

GoodFatherMeThinkEndGo

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