Shami Chakrabarti famous quotes
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We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.
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Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.
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In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.
-- Shami Chakrabarti
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The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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