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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I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Bridges are a troll's specialty. Whether because of some magic or just because of aptitude, you never get across the bridge without facing the troll. That's life, I guess.
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I left school just shy of 17: I'd started going into touring and that situation.
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I am not yet born; forgive meFor the sins that in me the world shall commit, my wordsWhen they speak me, my thoughts when they think me,My treason engendered by traitors beyond me,My life when they murder by means of myHands, my death when they live me.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
