Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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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'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.
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It was very fortuitous that the show True Detective actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the show, I was gaining weight. When I'm playing fifty, I'm ten pounds heavier! I don't know if they thought maybe I was method? But it actually worked to my benefit.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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Never dip lower than you can dip.
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
