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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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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My husband and I oddly have worked together a couple of times. We did a 'Veronica Mars' episode together. We didn't work together, but we were both in 'Ghost World.' We had a theater company in L.A., for a bunch of years. So, we've worked together a fair amount, and it's always just great fun.
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.
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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.
