Bahman Ghobadi Quotes
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.
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The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.
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One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
