"This world is out of date"

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Source : Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.5, A&C Black

Kamila Shamsie

#World Quotes #This World Quotes

“If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strikeâ€”it isn't there!”
“I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We are more than just our bodies, but that doesn't mean we have to be shamed for them or our sexuality.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 30, 2016
“It is absolutely a good thing that she [Angelina Jolie] helped to educate the world about the existence of this mutation; hopefully, as a result, more compassionate understanding exists regarding the choices BRCA carriers must face.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.”
“I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.”
“We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.”

Source : "Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge - as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Haroon Siddique, Nadia Khomami and Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2106.

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