Kamila Shamsie Quotes

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.

Kamila Shamsie

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• Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Change

• America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • America
  • Dream

• The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Worst

• I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.

  

  Maluma
  • Music
  • Trying
  • English

• I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Family
  • Think
  • Culture

• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • College
  • English
  • Economics

• I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.

  

  Imelda May
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Family
  • Way
  • Existence

• My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Different
  • Family
  • Beautiful

• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Important
  • Family
  • Dad

• I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• All the women in my family were superb cooks.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Women
  • Family
  • Were

• Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Family
  • Home
  • Peace

• Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Life
  • Family
  • Father

• 'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Family
  • Show
  • Quintessential

• Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

  

  Lynne Cheney
  • Family
  • Nature

• My life is going at the speed of light, so it's a lot of just trying... to be present in each moment... Giving each situation and each part of life that space and making sure that it's sacred in every aspect.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Giving

• What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Moving

• The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

  

  John Madden
  • Road

• My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!

  

  Breckin Meyer
  • School
  • High
  • Girlfriend

• Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.

  

  Kamila Shamsie
  • Family
  • English
  • Pride