Yasmin Ahmad Quotes
Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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I know what poverty is.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
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Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
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The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.
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I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.
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Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.
