Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes

I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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TimeStartFeelLongCountryFirst

My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.

Jimmy Smits

StrengthCharacterPowerMenPeople

The last time Congress seriously addressed the notion of creating a way to keep track of America's guns was 1968.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

TimeAmericaCreatingSeriouslyWay

It's just such an addictive sport. Only now I can understand why ex-fighters come back. That addiction helps me set new goals and targets.

Amir Khan

GoalsMeBackI CanNewUnderstand

Rehearsing a scene beds a role into you. But sometimes, if you over-rehearse it without unearthing any new meaning in it, you can suddenly forget your lines. You realise that you are on a stage, not in the real world. The scene's emotional power, and your immersion in it, disappears.

Riz Ahmed

PowerWorldMeaningYouSometimes

You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because... well I guess I'm afraid to.

Ron Perlman

PeopleSayingInternetYouGoKnow

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

Ruth J. Simmons

TimeSchoolBossEarlyCalifornia

Without 'The Brady Bunch,' my guess is I would have become an engineer working on new plastics or something.

Mike Lookinland

NewBecomeWithoutSomethingWorking

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

Michelle Huneven

LifeWorkBeautifulSomeoneRealUs

For me, the team is always more important.

Luka Modric

MeTeamImportantMoreAlways

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

Anne Sullivan

ChildThinkBetterGoWillTouch

I live on the edge of Bath. It's really lovely, but its very loveliness freaks me out a bit. It's peaceful, a great antidote to the craziness of being on tour, but sometimes I feel as though I've retired.

Alison Goldfrapp

LiveGreatMeFeelPeacefulBath

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.

Nick Stahl

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