Kamila Shamsie Quotes
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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The ‘right reading’ is an invention of academics and critics. Every reader gets from the book he is reading nothing else but his book. The shelves where we line up the volumes we’ve read are deceptive. We have available there only titles, covers, pages. But the books we’ve truly read are phantoms conjured up by reading with no rules.
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I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?
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Now, democracy should be robust but it certainly shouldn't be violent, and I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird.
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To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman.
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You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.
