Ash Koosha (Ashkan Kooshanejad) Quotes

As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.

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• Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Powerful
  • Cold

• I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Like
  • Novel
  • Careers

• My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • People
  • Parents
  • Small

• That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • People
  • Time
  • Amazing

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Might

• That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Kind
  • Take

• The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Tennis
  • Court
  • Only

• When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a way to get outs.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Way
  • You
  • Got

• Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Home

• After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Amazing
  • Beer

• Art is not an end but a beginning.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art
  • Beginning

• Good doctors exercise judgment. They make the call and - right or wrong - live with the consequences and learn from them. The redefined M.D. is flawed, but comfortable inside their own skin.

  

  Brian Goldman
  • Good
  • Live
  • Exercise

• Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Athlete

• I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,My friends forsake me like a memory lost:I am the self-consumer of my woes,They rise and vanish in oblivious host,Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost:And yet I am, and live with shadows tost

  

  John Clare
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Death

• He sat for a long time and thought to himself that he wished he knew how to pray, yet he knew, untaught, how by abandonment of himself to let the quietness take hold of him.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Hold
  • Wished
  • Abandonment

• As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them.

  

  James Frain
  • Up

• It's worth exploring if it offers any potential at all to protect emergency responders or industrial workers. Without doing things like this, you'll never know where it could go.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Potential
  • Exploring
  • Responders

• Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Place

• As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.

  

  Ash Koosha
  • Environment
  • Choices
  • Location