It's a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that's a writerly thing.
Have you ever stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai? I'd warmly recommend it. It's super luxurious, and right next door, there's a classic slum. So you can do a quick slum tour and get back to your sanctuary without any inconvenience but with some excellent snaps.
Eating at regular intervals in small amounts and not starving yourself is the key to maintaining your figures.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.
Smudge your eyeliner. It creates a smoky effect.
If you've ever snapped a picture of your dinner, Nom is for you.
What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.
With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.
Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.
You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.
Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.
Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.
When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.
'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.
To be known as an actor is to be known for your role and lines. But the country knows me for the stance I have taken, for the villages I have adopted, the social work I do, the comfort zone I have left.
