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 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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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.
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I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I would be talking in gibberish language, like I was talking in a different language, and my parents would be like, 'Oh that was great!' and I'd be like, 'Wait, it's not done!'
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
