Bahman Ghobadi Quotes

I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.

Bahman Ghobadi

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• Iran

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• I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

  

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• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  

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• I am turning into the person I knew I would.

  

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• My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

  

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• I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

  

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• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

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• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

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• I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.

  

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• I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.

  

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• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

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• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

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• Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

  

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• My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.

  

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  • She
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• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  

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• When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

  

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• When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.

  

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• I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.

  

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• Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

  

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• Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.

  

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• I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

  

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• I've always endeavored to make movies with my friends.

  

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• I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Friends
  • Doors
  • Iran