Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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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.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
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I wanted to write an upbeat song where I could feel good about the fact that I've moved around so much and not sad about all the goodbyes I've had to face.
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
