Ali Banisadr Quotes
When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the books I am reading, personal events, influences, emotions, etc. - all find their way into my work.
Quotes to Explore
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.
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We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.
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Who said last, 'A cleaner New York-school is Up To You?'
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Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.
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New cell phones are my weakness.
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Acting takes so much energy.
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You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can't take the Irishness out of the man.
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I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.
Gail Devers -
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the books I am reading, personal events, influences, emotions, etc. - all find their way into my work.
