Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying Kiswahili. I was working on the dialect. I was studying every documentary and tape of him that I could find - not just visual, but also audiocassettes, even in other languages when he was speaking in other dialects.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.
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I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
