Asghar Farhadi Quotes
During all of my writing career - this includes when I was writing plays and my other screenplays - I don't recall ever writing a negative character, which does not mean that my characters aren't flawed or do not make mistakes. In actual fact, they all are quite flawed.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater on a larger scale. I'm just excited for the next thing that comes along that I'm salivating over. I think a little more guerrilla would be really exciting to me.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
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The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.
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An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
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Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.
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The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
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During all of my writing career - this includes when I was writing plays and my other screenplays - I don't recall ever writing a negative character, which does not mean that my characters aren't flawed or do not make mistakes. In actual fact, they all are quite flawed.
