Samina Baig Quotes
My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.
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If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.
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You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
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It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
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For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
