Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
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When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other.
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I remember my father playing a cassette for me when I was fifteen - Amjad Ali's 'Durga.' He said, 'This is from our part of the world. You must listen to it.' And I continued rewinding it and listening to it from early evening until midnight. By the end of it, I was nearly in tears.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
