Kamila Shamsie Quotes
We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Your humanity is your instrument.
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You couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to take marijuana. I don’t really like coke anymore. I’m scared of ecstasy. The one drug I'd like to try one day is Ayahuasca, which should be mandatory for everybody. It’s apparently this crazy tea that gives you these intense hallucinations. Everyone who takes it sees a wise old black man who takes you on a wild journey. I’m not going to name names, but everyone who takes it sees the same black guy. I'm not kidding you. Everyone!
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Our memories are the keys to our past and everything we've ever worked for, fought for, and dreamed of.
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The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.
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We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.
