Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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Act because you love to act.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.
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all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes
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We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.
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Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
