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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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 was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.
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Money is a hazard.
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Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
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I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
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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.
