Azar Nafisi Quotes
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
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I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.
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I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.
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There ain't nothing that we need to be worried about. We just need to be in the right lane where everybody else be in the left lane.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
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In this business, you're dependent on the writer, the filmmaker, the luck of beating out who knows how many people for the part. I'm over getting torn up about that.
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
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I'm quite hardcore on this. I think every psychic and medium in this country belongs in prison. Even the ones demented enough to believe in what they're doing. In fact, especially them. Give them windowless cells and make them crap in buckets.
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I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.
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It's part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That's one of the reasons I've been able to survive.
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Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.
