Quotes About Opportunity

I've been offered roles in Indian films, but I wanted my debut film to be from Pakistan. A lot of people think that I've made my music career from India, but that's not true. I made it big in Pakistan, and then I went across the border.

People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.

Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.

Luckily, I've had the chance to perform with some of the best actors in Pakistan, who helped me out a lot on set.

I was not sceptical coming to Pakistan. I took the job because I was really excited about it.

The educated youth are the future of Pakistan and they will make us proud in the future too.

I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan.

No one's of Pakistani origin in any British show. That's why every actor of color is here working in the States. It's true.

I am the first Pakistani actress who got the opportunity to work with Shah Rukh Khan as the main lead.

In the Pakistani entertainment industry it's very, very difficult to get your foot in the door if you don't have a network in Karachi or Lahore or in the film circle.

Coming to Crystal Palace, I'm really excited to be playing. There's still massive competition here.

A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.

At Palace, I feel like a first-team player, and I have got the opportunity to play every week.

I'm sad to leave Palace because they're a great club and gave me my chance in football, and I want to say thanks to everyone there.

I'm glad I came to Palace because I am getting the game time I wanted. I am also learning to fight with some good players.

It was Cosmos who actually told Crystal Palace about me. Palace came to have a look, liked what they saw, and they took it from there.

I had four great years at Palace but just felt it was the right time to start a new chapter of my career.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Trinidad was an opportunity to start all over again, to have another stab at it. The mystery and atmosphere of the place have entered my palette a lot more than I thought they would.

It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.

In 2013, after living in New York for 18 years, I decided to leave Manhattan for a fresh start in Palm Beach.

Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that.

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

Sometimes I pick parts because I think, 'OK, it scares me,' and that's an indication it's going to be a good movie for me to do. Sometimes that leaves me in a terrible... Well, it doesn't always pan out, you know?