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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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
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I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
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I submitted videos and applications to talent agencies and TV shows; I drove to Vegas and visited agents. I was on 'America's Got Talent'; I played for free at venues in attempts to be 'found' and yet all the experts in the entertainment industry told me that what I did was not marketable and that I had to join a group or do more traditional music.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
