Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes
I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.
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The demand is there. Farming has been tough over the years.
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Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.
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I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.
