Mohsin Hamid Quotes

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.

Mohsin Hamid

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MountainMeWritingConquerBecome

I've kept most of my friends for decades, and I continue to make new friends.

John Grant

FriendsNew FriendsNewContinue

I think coaches really do matter because they see the game, and we just play the game from a different point of view, so they're able to give us a lot of tips and a lot of pointers, and I think coaches are really, really important.

Metta World Peace

GameThinkViewPoint Of ViewPlay

I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.

Amber Heard

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If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.

Steve Carell

GodChildrenWordsLookingYouMore

I hate not giving the people what they want.

Robin Thicke

HatePeopleGivingWant

When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.

Michael Weatherly

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Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Milton Friedman

EducationPeopleLearnNeverOnly

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.

Loretta Napoleoni

PositiveFutureHistoryPlayWill

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

Jonathan Keltz

LifeAgeExperienceYouBackPlay

I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum.

Dick Cheney

PeopleColleaguesReputationThink

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

Donald Hall

DeathMeForwardWorryYouLook

My role model, my idol, was Francois Truffaut.

David Seltzer

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