Asghar Farhadi Quotes
It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.
Quotes to Explore
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.
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What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.
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I do believe food plays an important role in preparation for the Olympics or any competition.
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Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
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I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.
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Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.
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The president named Obama is probably not going to repeal the bill that's named after him.
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It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.
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Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?
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It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.
