Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.
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Dreams, Stuff, Award

Don't give up your dreams.
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Education liberates a woman.
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Education, Woman, Liberates

I believe in telling the truth.
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I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.
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Life, Whole, Making

I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.
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Hope, Home, Proud

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.
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Anger, Angry, Person

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - if you put quality work out there, it will be appreciated.
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Work, Put, Matter

It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.
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Life, Woman, Second

My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Family, Sense, Balanced

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.
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Difficult, Interest, Films

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.
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Challenge, Duty, Status

Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.
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Reputation, Image, Pakistan

The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.
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Government, Pakistan, Allies

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?
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Education, Good, Parents

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

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.
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Country, Working, Talk

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.
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Change, Time, Hope

Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.
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May, Fighting, Stop

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.
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Time, Long, Country

I have very strong Canadian connections. My daughter was born there a year and half ago. But because of the nature of my job, I need to be in countries where I can get the stories that I am looking at.
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Nature, Strong, Job

I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.
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Someone, Why, Become

I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.
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Time, Long, Difficult

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.
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Change, Here, Found

In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Justice, Inspired, Face

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Biography

Nationality: Pakistani

Type: Journalist

Born: November 12, 1978

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