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Vikram Seth Quotes

Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

Vikram Seth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mother Sleep Baby Singing Key You

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

Jerry Saltz

Art Progress Expectations Way Social

I grew up learning to do more with less.

Ann Kirkpatrick

Learning More Up Less Grew

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

Steve Kazee

Social Media Media Way Everything

I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad.

Rita Ora

Sad I Am End Doing Up Cause

Macauley Culkin was on the show a lot. Or Haley Joe Osment.

Mary Hart

Show Lot Joe

We're all flawed people at the end of the day; I don't know any perfect people.

Michelle Monaghan

Day People End Of The Day End Know

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

David Tennant

Time King You Captain Stage Sell

We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that's all music is.

Chris Martin

Music Want Awards Whatever Something

Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.

Clyde Edgerton

Father Sad Children Fun Create Play

I think that the romantic suspense that you used to get between people like Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant is much sexier than seeing people taking their clothes off and getting into bed, which is voyeurism.

Anne Reid

Romantic People Think Clothes You

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

Phoebe Snow

Me Jazz Singer Common Most About

If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.

Norman Reedus

Woman Me Talk Her Dishonest Even