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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• Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

  

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• I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

  

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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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  • Love
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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.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
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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.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
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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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  • Inspiration
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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.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • 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 loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don't want to live in New York anymore. I'm just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don't feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do.

  

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• When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

  

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• When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

  

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• I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

  

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  • Job

• I don't ever get too literal.

  

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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