Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.
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When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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I'm not a person who naturally loves to wake up in the morning and go 'Yeah, I'm going to work out for five hours - wooh!' Like, that's not my thing. I'm from Texas. I like to eat carbs. I like to chill out with my friends and do anything but 150 push-ups and sit-ups.
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I was never supposed to be a businessman. I was going to change the world. I was going to go back to Latin America and work on agrarian reform and equalize the differences between rich and poor.
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I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
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Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's all well and good for other people to do better, but not at our expense, and it won't benefit us.
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Everyone was so anti-wanting to be anything else. I guess a lot of bands say that but I think, for us, that notion - combined with our musical influences - ended up making us uncategorizable.
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A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
