Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
Quotes to Explore
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
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I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.
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Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.
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If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
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The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.
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I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
