Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
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I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
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Instead of improvisers who want to be funny by themselves, we aim to try and make the scene itself as funny as possible. As a creator, I think that's someone you'd rather work with, whether it's a movie or a sitcom; that kind of methodology is good for collaboration. People want to be with those kinds of performers.
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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
