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.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Priority
  • Top

• 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.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Live
  • Mind
  • May

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• 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.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Home
  • Experience

• I'm not a sun person.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Person
  • Sun

• 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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Political
  • Challenge
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Important
  • Children
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Night
  • Know
  • Born

• We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Good
  • City
  • Partner

• 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.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I just went, '*cough, cough, cough* You wanna egg rorr?'

  

  Margaret Cho

• I adore Copenhagen, where I live, but I'm really drawn to New York.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Live

• What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.

  

  Kurt Browning
  • World
  • Night

• Put it this way: If I asked, 'How's business?' and you say, 'Boomin' or 'Amazing,' I already know the answer.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Business
  • Amazing

• I want to be scary, boring, philosophical, funny, touching.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Funny
  • Scary
  • Philosophical

• If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Most of the time, people are afraid of silence, and I'm not.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Silence

• One of the cool things I remember is the Swiss people brought their big cowbells.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • People
  • Remember
  • Cool

• When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of time to spend at home with my family.

  

  Jean Alesi
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Children
  • Champion
  • Ruthless

• Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

  

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • People
  • Expression
  • Cinema