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Vikram Seth Quotes

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

Vikram Seth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian
Birth: June 20, 1952

Topics

Deep You Write Stream Clearly Tell

I'm having so much fun, because you know what? They cast a Star Wars fan in a Star Wars movie. Biiiiiig mistake!

John Boyega

Mistake Fun You Know Star Cast

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

Matt Roper

Failure Relationship Moment Milk

I love myself a truffle. I can put a truffle in anything and make it good.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love Good Myself I Can Anything Put

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

John W. Gardner

Great Opportunities Problems Series

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

Tommy Wiseau

Feel Director Plastic Realism

I played with a few local bands in the West Country, where I grew up, but when I was 18, I moved to London, which at that time was probably the most exciting musical city in the world. I was supposed to be studying dentistry, but all the time I was looking for a band to join.

Roger Taylor

Time City World Looking Country Up

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

Robert Wilson

Community Museums Up Where Religious

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.

Michael Kiwanuka

Soul Like Folk Lot Put Also

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

Lowell Thomas

Man Speak Credit Ability Out Who

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

David Starr Jordan

Dog Patriotism Religion Moon He

People have always asked, 'Do you prefer comedy or drama?' And my answer is, 'Both, at the same time.'

Connie Britton

Time People Comedy You Drama Always

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

Bram Stoker

Life Snow Beautiful Red Sun Climb