Imran Khan Quotes
I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Let us have peace.
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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
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We are facing someone Iran who has an army, money, and a political plan for the Arab Islamic Middle East.
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That was really strange, having to come up with a new surname [when my agent deemed my birth name too hard for people to remember]. After a long decision making process, me and my parents agreed on Lara because that was the name that sounded the most beautiful.
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It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights movement in the 60s here, but when I think of the Islamic feminist movement, I think of a lot of men who are very much standing with the women. It really feels like in equal numbers. Women are catching up in the field because we were not given access to knowledge and encouraged into these studies and so these men are helping us and empowering us. They are men of conscience who are fed up with this assumption that they're entitled.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
