Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

Abbas Kiarostami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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PeopleMeStoryFeelThreeAsk

When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

Jimmy Reid

PowerGovernmentVotingDoubtStreet

I have no friends and I never leave my house.

Megan Fox

FriendsHouseNo FriendsNeverLeave

The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.

John Perry Barlow

PeopleEntertainmentAlwaysIndustry

I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.

Amanda de Cadenet

I AmPeopleCameraBehindInterested

Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.

Tristram Stuart

FoodMeThoughtBackWantTalk

I have an appreciation for strong women.

Jay Duplass

WomenAppreciationStrong

In Philly, there are a lot of social programs. If you have a degree, you can go and apply. I was basically a social worker, but I became sort of a sub teacher in a special program, helping kids with reading or math. But we would also do plays, learn about music... We were doing lots of fun stuff, but that was such hard work.

Diplo

WorkHard WorkMusicTeacherFunGo

I've always been a dog owner, from the time I was a little boy in Chicago.

David Seltzer

DogTimeChicagoBoyAlwaysLittle

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Clement Mok

GoodBusinessTechnologyChaosOut

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

Chuck Palahniuk

LoveSayingYouAlwaysWellHow

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

TimeMeNowWasted TimeWastedDoth

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

William Hazlitt

FriendshipLoveRulesMoreForce

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