Simin Daneshvar Quotes
I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
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Ce qui remplit le temps c'est vraiment de le perdre.
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I listen to a lot of criticism. From the Left and the Right and from everywhere. I mean, everybody's a media critic. And sometimes I think it's on point, and other times, I think about it and consider it and then might ultimately disagree with it. But I do listen to it; I really do.
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I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.
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We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbidden
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I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.
