Asma Jahangir Quotes
I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is nothing more nobler a cause that I can think of.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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It takes a great deal of strong personality to survive the art school training. Hard nuts that the art schools can't crack and devour get through and become artists.
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That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.
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Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts.
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I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is nothing more nobler a cause that I can think of.
