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.
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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.
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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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.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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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.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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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.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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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.'
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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The new overkill is simply an extension of our nervous system into a total ecological service environment. Such a service environment can liquidate or terminate its beneficiaries as naturally as it sustains them. (p. 152)
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It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.
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No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.
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The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life.
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
