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

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if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced.

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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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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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An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

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Where I grew up in Pakistan, it's really the luck of the draw. My mother got married when she was 17. She never went to college but she wanted each and every one of us to go to college and then work. She was relentless about it. And i think that part of who i am is shaped by her strength. If [girls] families support them, they can achieve their dreams

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

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