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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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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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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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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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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The power play is based on results and not how many chances you get. We missed a chance to get points last night, so it magnified the importance of this game.
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The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
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I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.
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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.
