Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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PeopleYouCountryWantKindTalk

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.

Andrew Motion

AnimalPeopleThinkInteresting

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Stephen Hawking

GoodChanceThinkEnoughLongSolar

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

Robert Zemeckis

GoodKindNeverAnythingWorthwhile

It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of.

Michel Hazanavicius

LanguageRecognitionYouUnique

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

Jonah Lomu

LifeLooking BackLookingBackGo

One of the reasons a film about Pablo Escobar has never been made in the two-hour format is because there's too much information.

Boyd Holbrook

InformationToo MuchNeverFilmBeen

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

Aung San Suu Kyi

HeroKindBlushWouldWereBlushing

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

Aung San Suu Kyi

FreeCountryWantPresidentDecide

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

Alice Munro

ChildhoodBeginningBookYouClassic

Great songs stand out wherever they're from.

Willie Nelson

GreatStandOutWhereverSongs

If something is really outrageous, it doesn't matter if it is one culture, or another, it's outrageous.

Sheryl WuDunn

CultureMatterSomethingOutrageous

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

Tim LaHaye

WouldBestsellerPopularHopedJerry

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