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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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
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Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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Putin is lovely.
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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
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I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.
