Zainab Salbi Quotes
Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.
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My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.'
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I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.
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Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.
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When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.
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Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
