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Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

Abbas Kiarostami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Selfish Marketing Said Movies

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Live Trust Yourself You Know Will

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

Look Back Dwell Project Finished

I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I played trombone in the marching band. I remember especially enjoying two seasonal activities: ice skating with the Houston Figure Skating Club in the winter and visiting an aunt and uncle's farm in West Texas in the summer.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Winter School High School Texas Farm

I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don't totally understand why they're on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years.

Best Game Think You Numbers Why

In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.

Dennis L. McKiernan

Engineering Better Enjoy Career Bell

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.

I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.

Live Today Thankful Respect Best Me

You know how it is in L.A. You go to restaurants at four in the afternoon, and they're packed because everyone is an actor, and no one is working.

You Go Know Actor Everyone Working

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

True Never Statement Opposite Clear

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

Myself Personality Look Person See

We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.

Timothy Bottoms

Sad Angry New York Brother Me Doing

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Communication Doubt Artist Interest

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