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Pankaj Mishra Quotes

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian
Birth: 1969

Topics

Wisdom Writing Kind Going Your Some

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

Money School Law Go Law School Any

When I decided to continue in the sport, I decided I would do whatever it takes to be the best figure skater I can be.

Best I Can Whatever Would Continue

You have to have patience and confidence that your things will let you know where they need to go. Particularly artwork. Paintings will tell you where they want to be.

Anjelica Huston

Patience Confidence You Know Want

Back in Oakland, we have a lot of food in the locker room, but on the road, it's mostly just fruit. So we have to prepare differently. But really, once you get to the gym, everything on the road is pretty much the same.

Food Fruit Road You Gym Back

My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.

Sinead O'Connor

Work Creative Process Slow Head

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

People Solitude Company May Almost

I have aging as a disease.

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

Time People Me Feel Long Look

I don't divide my reading into demographic categories, any more than I'd divide my friends into groups along ethnic or sexual lines. The thing I look for most is a sense of literary rawness - bareback fiction, if you will.

Christopher Fowler

Reading Friends You Look Will More

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

Live Music New York People City You

I hope that women know that they can and should try everything they're interested in - with the confidence that men have had.

Confidence Women Hope Men Know Try

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

Quality I Am Information Healthcare

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