Kamila Shamsie Quotes
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
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The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.
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I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.
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The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.
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The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
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We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
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I have a great life and I'm super active.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.
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In the '60s, I sat with my dad in frozen Wrigley Field at Bears games.
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I'm glad to tell you Mr President that our relations with our neighbors is improved very well with Turkey, with Syria, with Iran with the Arab countries. The relation is normal now and we have no problem with any of those countries. In contrary, many many new ambassadors are coming to our country from Arab countries.
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Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'
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How do you eat your roots?
