Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes
Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I'm not a sun person.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
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He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
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I just think, in every acting choice that you make, you've got to go for the least obvious choice.
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I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.
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I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.
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Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.
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You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the love in your heart.
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Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.
