Vijay Seshadri Quotes

#1. Superman can fly high way up in the sky
'cause we believe he can. So what we choose to believe can always work out fine ... It's all in the mind.

Luther Vandross

#2. All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real ...

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#3. You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

Maya Angelou

#4. Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

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#5. I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.

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#6. I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.

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#7. You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

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#8. I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind. And it showed up in his songs - I mean, almost every song he wrote had something to do with dying. He was an American treasure that went way too soon.

Alice Cooper

#9. Technology is transforming everything. Who knows what it's doing, we don't really understand it.

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#10. The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

Harrison Ford

#11. You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

Malcolm Forbes

#12. We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.

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#13. It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

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#14. A normal human being ... does not exist.

Karen Horney

#15. Genius is the seed slowly germinating in the ground.

Marty Rubin

#16. The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

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#17. Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

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#18. I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills ... and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.

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#19. As a model you need to be able to do the craziest things.

Heidi Klum

#20. I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

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#21. He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

Susanna Clarke

#22. Paul presents the Good News: Salvation is available to all, regardless of a person's identity, sin, or heritage. We are saved by grace (unearned, undeserved favor from God) through faith (complete trust) in Christ and his finished work. Through him we can stand before God justified, not guilty

Anonymous

#23. Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

Augustus William Hare

#24. I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

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#25. These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.

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#26. I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

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#27. You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.

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#28. Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.

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#29. We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

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#30. And if I'd be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I'd find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always loving myself. I would put myself in that win-win situation.

Aspen Matis

#31. Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.

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