"Each person makes their own choice, but my spirit is meant to stay in Iran, especially with the work that I do, and with the emotional connection I have with the country - with all its difficulties, this is why I stay."

-- Asghar Farhadi

#Country Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Iran Quotes

“Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.”
“When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.”
“One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this claim. In figure skating, for instance, the novice practices only simple moves. After years of training, the skater then proceeds to the jumps and spins that make up an elite skater's program. But the novice rower, from day one, strives to duplicate a motion that he'll still be doing on the day of the Olympic finals.”
“A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.”
“In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals free to swim as they will and must. They do us no harm and wish us none and we should let them alone.”
“Valentine's Day - a nice holiday because it's the first day of the rest of your wife.”
“I don't really get recognised very much.”

Source : "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2007.
“Whenever you have to fall, fall carefully!”

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