Mohsin Hamid Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
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Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
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And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.
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'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
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We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.
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I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever – I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.
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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
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(Referring to the music of Anton Bruckner) 'Nightmarish hangover style' (traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil)
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
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The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
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Our economy has been at risk by investment schemes aimed at making not just a few, but many extra dollars, and we need to start insisting on the right rules and transparency so this doesn't happen again.
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It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.
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I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.
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I get recognized often, but they don't treat me like a god. It would be nice if they did, I think.
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Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.
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If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
