Abdolkarim Soroush Quotes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
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I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.
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When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
