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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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 other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition.
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I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.
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When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.
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My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.
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I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.
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You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.
