Umera Ahmad Quotes

I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.

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• I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Day
  • Discipline
  • Emotion

• War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Economic
  • Rights

• The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Want
  • Talk
  • Little Girls

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Job
  • Best
  • Press

• You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Health
  • Fight
  • Healthy

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Disney
  • Almost
  • Deeply

• I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • People
  • Kind
  • Early

• I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Me
  • Decisions

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

  

  Bao Dai
  • War
  • Government
  • Won

• Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • American
  • Crazy
  • Said

• I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Racism
  • Scene
  • Anarchy

• I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Good
  • History
  • Amazing

• Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.

  

  Leymah Gbowee
  • Women

• This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Love

• I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • Women
  • Small
  • Literacy