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"It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word."
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"Take distinct steps and exploits. Those who are distinct and distinguished always score distinction. Go there, be there and stay there."

"Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you."

"Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was."

"You have to be firm, persistent, passionate, and driven by the idea and have a strong desire to bring your product to the market."

"In the pursuit of goals, you cannot give up anytime you feel uncomfortable."

"Stop complaining. Plot your course and start your journey. Adjust your sail. Success is waiting to welcome you."

"Those who win never quit, those who quit never win."
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"Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?"

"For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could."

"She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself."

"If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters - the Adivasis and the Dalits. And in the meantime, the zamindars are laying the oil pipelines and selling both parties weapons."

"Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds."

"But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much."

"Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief."
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