Quotes
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Vijay Seshadri

"When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role."

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

Vijay Seshadri

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Roles Quotes

“Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.”

Source : "Life Sucks? Perfect Time To Give!" by Daryn Kagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2010.
“That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.”
“People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.”
“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.”

Source : "Charting the Candidates '72" by Ronald Van Doren, 1972.
“Thatâ€™s what faith is, right?â€™ he says. â€˜Believing in what canâ€™t be known? Fall into my arms, Dori. Iâ€™ll catch you, every time, and I wonâ€™t let go.”
“Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion. Talking about myself is a little less inspiring than talking about the character.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.”
“That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really long-term, imaginative, empathetic effort to see the world the way someone whose experiences remote from yours might see it. Not every writer works that way; some writers make a wonderful career out of writing books that adhere very closely to how they view the world. The further I go with this, the more interested I get in trying to imagine my way into other perspectives that at first seem foreign to me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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