Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
-
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
-
Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
-
The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
-
Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
-
We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
-
Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
-
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
-
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
-
All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
-
If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
-
I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
-
China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
-
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
-
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
-
In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
-
Race differences show up early in life.
-
That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
-
You work to make sure that, in the game, everybody knows where they're supposed to be at, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But if you put them in a position to be successful, that's all you can ask for.
-
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
-
I like bags that are easy to wear and are pretty to look at. But I don't like them when they have no space and you can't put anything in them.
-
I think celebrities suck.
-
I just really want to continue on the same intensity of work ethic, I don't want to slow now. I'm 21-year's old and I feel like this era and a few years to come are my prime years, so I want to utilise them.
-
I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
