Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I think the combination of action and the combination of comedy are two really, really good genres to meld together.
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.