Asghar Farhadi Quotes
The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.
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I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you.
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The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.
