- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy that my parents were supportive. They never really pressurised me into going ahead with just about anything.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope people like me in the film and love the film because I think 'Befikre' is a very sweet film.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loyalty is very important to me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think about who is doing what, but give my 100 per cent to whatever is coming to me.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 'Shamshera' is set in a particular time, the dance sequences require me to have a very Indian, very classical body language, which is why I started taking kathak classes to learn the nuances and the grace.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meat eaters don't like me because I call for moderation, and vegetarians don't like me because I say there's nothing wrong with eating meat. It's part of our evolutionary heritage! Meat has helped to make us what we are. Meat helps to make our big brains.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
- Great Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020