Bahman Ghobadi Quotes
In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.
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I think all of us could insist on preserving the truth and preserving the peace. We could insist that political candidates tell the truth about controversial issues. And secondly, we should be sure to encourage our political leaders, after they're elected, to preserve the peace.
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I'm ready to deal with somebody else's baggage. I'm sick of mine.
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I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
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In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
