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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes

I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: pakistani
Birth: November 12, 1978

Topics

Time Long Canada Too Much Difficult

I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale.

Jo Bonner

Fear Name Never Through Lived Seen

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

Jerry Seinfeld

Wife Angry Comedy Annoying Different

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

Robert Jackson

Problem Without Being Avoid Drawn

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Tom Holt

Childhood Poetry Grow Out Nasty Few

I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play.

Rob Lowe

Friend Business Motto Gift You Play

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

Jason Behr

Home Yourself Finding Much About

Anyone who lives in N.Y.C. will tell you that getting into a confrontation on a city street is a complete nightmare 100 percent of the time.

Chris Gethard

Time City You Street Will Tell

I find the ball, and I think, 'Where's the ball going, and where do I need to go?' It just puts me back in the game, and it's the simplest thing, but it's become sort of like my soccer mantra. I simply use the ball as my focus point and move back into position, and the distracting thoughts disappear, and I'm right back in the game.

Christen Press

Focus Me Thoughts Game Think Find

If you at any point forget that Wookiees aren't real, it's time to come up for air.

Claudia Gray

Time You Forget Real Air Up

If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.

Bonnie Hunt

Art Wanted Van Dyke Dick Van Dyke

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

Brad Pitt

Moment Day Looking Back Looking Free

I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.

Brian Posehn

Job Comedy Nothing Out Got Found