Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

Abbas Kiarostami

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• Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

  

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• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

  

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• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.

  

  J. D. Souther
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• I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.

  

  Barry Humphries
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• When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
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• At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Time
  • Baby
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• Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Time
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• I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought I'll do one film so that it would look good on my CV. Films happened one after another, in different industries. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Good
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• One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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• I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Time
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• Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Past
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• I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

  

  O. J. Simpson
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• The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

  

  Dan Quinn
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• I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
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• The way in which you accomplish your goals and help your customers needs to be very flexible depending upon how those customers are reacting in real time.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
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• I have a tendency to coddle my sons because I want to keep them safe, but I also want them to be strong and independent and curious and bold, and I worry that my coddling is going to have exactly the opposite effect.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Strong
  • Worry
  • Independent

• The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Truth
  • Kill
  • Kingdom

• Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
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  • Night

• Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Time
  • Different
  • Poetry