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Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

Abbas Kiarostami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: iranian
Birth: June 22, 1940 - July 4, 2016

Topics

Life Opportunity Time You Cinema

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly. I try to weed out stuff. My girlfriends come over for cheese and wine and go shopping in my wardrobe. They especially love it when they get stuff with a tag still on.

Jennifer Aniston

Love Shopping Wine Clothes Cheese

I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order.

People World Think You Comfortable

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

Day School Wait High School Grow

'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and... obsequious.

Memories Beginning Attention Look

My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight many political causes, but my financial service company is the greatest gift I've given.

Russell Simmons

Business Service Best Fight Gift

I don't follow what everybody else does.

Follow Everybody Everybody Else Else

Both my parents worked. So it wasn't like the previous generation where we learned how to cook and bake from our mothers and grandmothers.

Parents Generation Mothers Where Our

I feel like I came out of the womb and was punted - there you go, out in the world!

World Feel You Go Out I Feel Like

Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage.

Thought You Need Everything Out

Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

Education Me Ladder Way Up Make

I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote.

Thomas Middleditch

School Grades Vote Popular Based

As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.

Responsibility People Potential Look

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