Fatima Sana Shaikh Quotes
Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
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We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.
