"The idea of feeling displaced, and never feeling safe anywhere in the world, where you always feel like you're safer if you're over there, is not just my experience. If you went to Iran today or an Iranian came to America today, or the fact that there are bombs exploding everywhere, there's just a tremendous sense of fear and feeling a desire for security."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Shirin Neshat

#America Quotes #Iran Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it!”

Source : Simone Berteaut (1972). “Piaf: a biography”, HarperCollins Publishers
“You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.”
“The people at the CafÃ© Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.”
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

Source : Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.18, Beacon Press
“I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?”
“Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.”

Source : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.
“I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.”

Source : "Tales of the city" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2003.
“At the Christmas party, the secretary with the long red hair ate three pickles, and four salesmen panicked.”

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