Asghar Farhadi Quotes
Doing interviews about my films really bothers me sometimes, because I have to speak directly and clearly about things I've intended to keep ambiguous, and in a way, I feel like I'm betraying my film.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.
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As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
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I belong nowhere and to no one.
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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
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I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
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But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.
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At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.
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My own agenda is going to be followed, and that agenda is to maintain very good relations with the international community, and Lebanon has to fulfill its commitments.
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Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.
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Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.
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I have sisters who act, and I'd always seen it as their thing. I was never in the school plays like them - I wanted to be a painter.
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You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
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Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?
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The thing is that the people of Pakistan have supported me. They don't think of me as Western. I am a daughter of Pakistan and I am proud that I am a Pakistani.
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The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Doing interviews about my films really bothers me sometimes, because I have to speak directly and clearly about things I've intended to keep ambiguous, and in a way, I feel like I'm betraying my film.
