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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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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Shastriji had digested the message of the Gita. Some of us have memorised it in full and spout couplets from it at will. But I learnt of what it meant for someone to have actually digested it from Shastriji.
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I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
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Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?
