Kamila Shamsie Quotes
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
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It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
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I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.
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The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'
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Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
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Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.
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I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.
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Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.
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Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?
