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Vikas Swarup Quotes

I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian

Topics

Work Believe Opposite Cannot Who

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

Leader Losing World Reputation Grow

The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

Focus Oil More Dependent Less Fuels

Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need a Guitar Center. You gotta give it homage. It's a tool shed, and without the tool shed, it's hard to create.

Teen Guitar You Create Need Hard

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

Growth Budget Look Economy Through

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Communication Literature Out Against

There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

Up Bigger Queens

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

Mary Harris Jones

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

Music People Wait You Career Play

I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' - they were never going to hire me for a 'James Bond' film off 'Swingers.'

Me Bond Never Always British Going

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

Christopher Durang

Funny Sad Balance Parents Me Care

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

Christina Aguilera

Me Door Look Rules Way Act

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Anthony Hopkins

Art You Bad Acting More Act

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