Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes
If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.
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I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.
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My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.
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The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.
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Samuel Eto'o I know well. We see each other often; we send each other messages, and we call each other. It's good.
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I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.
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Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
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I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.
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Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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The conversations have been cordial. [Donald Trump] has been open to suggestions, and the main thing that I've tried to transmit is that there's a different between governing and campaigning, so that what he has to appreciate is as soon as you walk into this office after you've been sworn in, you're now in charge of the largest organization on Earth.
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We are in need of new concepts... which reorient our way of looking at the world to encompass present and future changes. I believe in the predominant framework for modern corporation... the corporation is viewed as a resource-conversion entity, taking raw material and converting tme into products, with dollars measuring the transaction. Returns are provided to owners in the form of dividends or capital appreciation in the marketplace.
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Emotions aren't a hindrance to wise decision-making, but are central to the Christian life.
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If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.
