Mohsin Hamid Quotes

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

Mohsin Hamid

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That's like - my thing is I'm always like, 'Oh, white men are ruining everything,' and Max's dad is like... don't say that in front of your son.

Jennifer Konner

SonMenWhiteSayAlwaysEverything

There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked.

John Oates

BeginningPeopleNeverAnythingIdea

In 1972, there was still a New York City law prohibiting women there from 'furnishing refreshments to the audience or spectators at any place of public amusement.' That's right: Until the law was repealed in 1977, it was technically illegal for women to work as popcorn vendors in Madison Square Garden.

Steve Rushin

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I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

Simon Callow

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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

Robert Benchley

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When someone says, 'I trusted you,' the phrase is loaded with all the actions that came from that trust: the person comes almost to embody trust, just as anyone who's always hustling can only be called a hustler.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

TrustSomeoneYouPersonAlways

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Michel de Montaigne

YourselfBrainyOthersGiveLend

I think I am kind of put on this Earth to speak of being between worlds in my films.

Mira Nair

I AmSpeakThinkEarthKindBeing

I did all this standup comedy in college, and from that point on, I tried to develop myself and get my name back out there.

Loni Love

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I want to reach the Mr. Joneses and Mrs. Smiths who wouldn't give Waco a second thought.

David Thibodeau

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Brigham Young

LoveBirthdayGiftMoreGiverThan

Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.

Anthony Marra

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