Pico Iyer Quotes

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: February 11, 1957

Topics

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Getting into Sundance is a certain sort of passport to a level of anxiety I've never experienced, even having had a baby in the NICU for a week. For about ten minutes, you're a world-class director. Then you become an entry-level, harried, low level concierge with absolutely no juice.

Jill Soloway

BabyAnxietyWeekYouBecomeNever

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

Andrew Lo

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I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

Mel Tillis

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Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community.

Matthew Desmond

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I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up.

Spike Jonze

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People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

Tori Amos

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I have lots of experience in three clubs: I was at Chelsea, then Fiorentina, and then Roma. I have good experience.

Mohamed Salah

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Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

Johnny Knoxville

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Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.

Debbie Reynolds

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I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by their strength.

Courtney A. Kemp

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As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Clayton M. Christensen

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I grew up in New York City and in London.

Alissa Quart

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