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.
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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.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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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.
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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.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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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.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.
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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.
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Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.
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I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.
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I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.
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Oh, what could be more delicious than replacing Chuck Grassley on the Senate Agriculture Committee?
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
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I'm the only one responsible for the choices I make and the opportunities I get. When you read the script, you don't know how it's going to shape up. You just know what you've been narrated.
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I wish I had known the value of interning at a startup before starting my own. There is so much I could have learned on somebody else's dime in a much lower-risk environment.
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As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.
