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Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

Abbas Kiarostami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Mind Writing Write Real Act

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Life Best Life Is Short Short Year

You learn very quickly what people are so enamored with, and it's not necessarily me.

Amanda Seyfried

People Me Learn You Very Quickly

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Ideas Setbacks Over Big Encounter

I'm human, and I make mistakes.

Mistakes Human Make

It's very important to hold on to what you want. In front of you is very easy fame and very easy money.

Money Easy You Fame Important Want

And so there are so many good things going on all across Iraq and unfortunately that's not what the American people see on TV or they don't read a lot about it in the newspapers.

Good People Good Things American See

The people who are in the military work very hard, often for not much money, to make their country better and to protect their country. And I have nothing but respect for that.

Chelsea Manning

Work Respect Money People Better

I truly hope readers learn to believe in their imaginations and their ability to shape their own lives. That's what 'The Girl Who Smiled Beads' means to me.

Clemantine Wamariya

Girl Hope Me Believe Learn Ability

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

Change Attitude You Look Acting

I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end.

Believe Think End Impact Workplace

I remember where I was when I wrote that story, 'Mermaid in a Jar.' I was at a boyfriend's, and he was the only boy I ever dated who was rich, and his parents had a ski chalet, and I just didn't know how to break up with him, so I decided I would be celibate.

Parents Story Rich Remember Know Up

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.

You Want Settle Nothing Never Right

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