Kamila Shamsie Quotes
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
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I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
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There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
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I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.
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Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.
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I don't want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this.
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One of the things I like to pack, that I take with me all the time, is my Virgensita de Guadalupe. It doesn't take much room in your suitcase. If you have one that isn't so fancy, you can use it on the plane when you're scared.
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When we consider the beginning of our life, and compare the same with the eternal life, which we have in the promise, we cannot say nor find that we are at home in this life.
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A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.
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Tomorrow is not a promise, but a chance.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.
