Akbar Ganji Quotes
It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.
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I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
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I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.
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God helps those who fear Him.
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U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.
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It takes a good actor to sound excited every time.
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I really got into the creepier and crawlier side of life.
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I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
