Asghar Farhadi Quotes

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

Asghar Farhadi

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• The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Good Thing
  • Storage

• I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • School
  • Know

• I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • American
  • America
  • Simple

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.

  

  Watt Key
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Money
  • Man
  • Me

• We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Very
  • I Can
  • Quietly

• I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Play
  • Knew
  • Villain

• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Looks
  • Parent
  • Misfortune

• In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Crazy
  • Rules
  • Generation

• Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Work
  • Children
  • Together

• Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
  • War
  • Stop

• People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Want
  • Community

• As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Trying
  • Question

• I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Hiking

• Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Nature
  • Hate
  • Human Nature

• To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps... loosen them up.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up

• When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • People
  • Hope
  • Faith

• As a lifelong romance reader (who devours up to a book a day when my writing schedule permits!), my favorite romances have always been about families. I love following brothers and sisters and cousins from book to book, not only for the pleasure of watching them fall in love, but also to watch each of their love stories grow deeper and richer throughout the series.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Reader
  • Romances
  • Families

• I am thrilled to receive the Sondheim Award from the wonderful Signature Theatre. I have already received the invaluable gift of over twenty-five years of collaboration and friendship with Steve. Now I get to have his award, too!

  

  James Lapine
  • Theatre
  • Friendship
  • Collaboration

• The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

  

  Asghar Farhadi