Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it - but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.

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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My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.

Joan Rivers

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For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.

Jenji Kohan

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I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.

Jeff Bridges

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You think Jay-Z is going broke? LeBron is going broke? These guys have figured it out. They came from poor backgrounds, broken homes, and they figured out how to be businessmen. They become new aspirations.

Steve Stoute

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I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.

Sid Gillman

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Working on 'Honeymoon,' an independent movie, was almost like working on TV with the space, and everything was stripped down - costume and hair and makeup. There was very little to hide behind, and you absolutely had to create the character from within.

Rose Leslie

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I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

Luke Treadaway

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All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

Liz Smith

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If your main reason for opening a bar is to have somewhere for you and your friends to hang out, then build a bar in your basement, and stay out of the industry.

Jon Taffer

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The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.

Christian de Duve

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To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Philippe Petit

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