Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

Abbas Kiarostami

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• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Songs
  • Out

• The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Me
  • Right
  • Kiss

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Time
  • Good
  • Others

• I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Work
  • Taken

• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • World
  • Death

• Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Characters

• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Time
  • Success
  • Respect

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Privilege

• When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

  

  S. Ansky
  • Work
  • Literature
  • Jews

• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
  • Feeling

• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we're going to see Bitcoin micropayments creating some very interesting opportunities for pay-as-you-go, pay-based-on-time online businesses and, frankly, some risks as well to the traditional business model as to how things get sold online.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Time
  • Business
  • Interesting

• When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Change
  • Me
  • Race

• It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I think it's just a lot more pressure to make the scenes work when you're doing a film, because when you're doing a series you feel like, I have so many scenes, so many episodes, so if I don't get it exactly right this time, I have another scene later. You feel less pressure.

  

  Chloe Sevigny
  • Time
  • Work

• Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Experiences
  • Grateful
  • Well

• I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Time
  • Me
  • Contentment