Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
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Surveys show that while many people are open to the idea of an autonomous vehicle driving them to work, far fewer are willing to let one drive their child to soccer practice.
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Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
