"When I'm not working on the ground, spending time with my husband and daughter puts me at ease."

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Source : "Conversation With Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy". Interview with Ellie Knaus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Husband Quotes

“Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.”
“If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”
“The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.”
“To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born,”
“I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.”
“Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life.”

Source : John Cowper Powys (1930). “In defence of sensuality”
“If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.”

Source : Lyall Watson (2003). “Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company
“Probably the greatest thing working in games is watching someone enjoy your game and to think, "Wow I had a part in giving someone that enjoyment".”

Source : Source: www.gamesradar.com

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