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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Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.
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We do not judge great art. It judges us.
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You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
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I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.
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In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.
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Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?
