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 like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.
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In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don't know what half the wives look like.
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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!
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A lot of movies you do because they're fun, they make people forget about their day.
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Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
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Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.
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A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
