Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes
What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
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I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
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Not everything can be solved quickly.
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.
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You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity.
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I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen.
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What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?
