Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes
Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.
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Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
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In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
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He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
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When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.
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Choir of Men: O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell: (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.
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Of course, I will continue acting. I just need to dispel the Telugu and Tamil cinema's insecurities about married actresses. I don't know about others. But I am not going anywhere after marriage.
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There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.
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You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.
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I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.
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What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.
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Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.
