Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes
My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.
Quotes to Explore
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I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
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When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.
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I don't work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
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Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.
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I don't like violence.
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When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with everything. If you have a small circle of friends, and one of those friends doesn't stay loyal to you, they don't stay your friend for very long.
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The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.
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It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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This is a fractal pattern from the twenty-first dimension. It took the longest time for the nail artist to get it right. It came to me in a dream.
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I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
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You can shop the clothing line from the app and everybody who subscribes gets 15% off everything. It's a closer look into my life, what I'm like, what I do. I like to make people laugh, so a lot of the content is me being a doofus, which is who I am.
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My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.
