Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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… exclude the need for appearances: what counts is not appearances; the value of life does not depend on the approval of others or on success, but on what we have inside us.
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Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
