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Pico Iyer Quotes

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World Too Much Nothing Knowing Gone

My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, 'What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?' And writing was that for me.

Life Time New York Me Writing New

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

Character Myself Challenge Find Play

When I was 14, I couldn't be bothered to tweeze my eyebrows, so I would shave them in between. One time, my hand slipped, and I had half an eyebrow.

Suki Waterhouse

Time Hand Eyebrows Half Eyebrow

I'm focused, as you can tell, on 2014 and on doing my job as a senator.

Job Doing You Focused Tell Senator

'Armada d6' proves that some of the best games out there are still being playing on your tabletop.

Best Games Out Playing Being Your

In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.

Great Art People World Enough You

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Music War Against Weapon Unhappiness

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Work Time Me Unhappy Feeling Know

Literally, 'Dance Moms' was so amazing, and I have the world to thank for that. They were so awesome - the set, the cast, the crew - it was amazing.

Dance Amazing World Awesome Crew

As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

People Me Thinking Friends America

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Actor Always Safe Side Goes

Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

Great Empathy Acting Human Real

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