Bahman Ghobadi Quotes
For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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Coach Wooden, when he speaks, you listen. I've taken a lot of things from him and his little blue book because to him, it's not just about basketball, it's about life as well.
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Music has always been around with me.
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I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.
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For the U.S., a nation that boasts of being the land of the free, it does not live up to its ideal.
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For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
