Ayshay Quotes
I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.
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I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.
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Ways and Means is the committee that tackles the big issues that affects people's lives and their jobs in a major way.
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Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
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Nothing ever stands still, and neither should you.
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Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.
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Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.
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When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.
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I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones.
