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Pankaj Mishra Quotes

Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian
Birth: 1969

Topics

Nationalism India Ethnic Pakistan

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

Music School New York City Night

Preppy never goes away. It just has its moment every 15 years, and then it goes back underground.

Michael Bastian

Moment Back Never Years Away Just

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Pain Language You Concept Learned

The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.

Truth Me Truth Is Think Problem

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

Music Beginning Been Electronic Music

The one who really captured me and became my absolute favorite was Nat King Cole. He was a genius at what he did. Most people don't realize what a great pianist he was. After listening to him for years, I finally met him, and he was the nicest human being.

Great King People Me Listening Him

We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.

Change Truth People Truth Is Think

I have to accept the fact that the time I was on, 'Project Runway' was already becoming a pop culture phenomenon.

Time Culture Accept Project Runway

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Travel Think Better Burden Publicity

Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

Work Me Think Changes Within Sharp

Any position they want me to play, I'll be there.

Asdrubal Cabrera

Me Play Want Position Any

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

Focus Trying New Saints Would Model

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