Bahman Ghobadi Quotes
When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
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We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.
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Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.
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When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
