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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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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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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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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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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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.
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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.
