"Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirtsâ€”the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish."

-- Adam Rex

#Stars Quotes #Home Quotes #Character Quotes

“We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.43, New Directions Publishing
“If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.”
“I lived in San Francisco for about eight years and I did a lot of improvisation there. The improvisational world ruled the voice world in San Francisco, so I became a voice talent there and did a lot of commercials and worked all the time. But I never could break into animation.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.”

Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.
“A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.”
“People suffer when they pursue a life or chase a dream that doesnâ€™t belong to them.”
“Perhaps it’s when you come to the realization that the point of life isn’t to be rich, or secure, or even to be loved - to be any of the things that people usually think is the point. The point of life is to live as deeply as possible, to experience fully. And that can be done in so many ways.”
“I know I have patterns and I've always tried hard to avoid them. There are definitely certain things in my music, if I'm looking back, "Well, that was a period where I was experimenting with a certain kind of chord structure or a certain kind of sound." I've tried really hard, but I'd be hard pressed to tell you what that sound, what that tangible sound of "me" is.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.

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