Bahman Ghobadi Quotes
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
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I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.
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Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
