Yusuf Hamied Quotes
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
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I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
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The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.
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Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.
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Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
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As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.
