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"I am chic, sleek, and so unique."

"It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish."

"We're supposed to speak from the heart in what we wear. We have to find capsule wardrobes."

"Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface."

"Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white."

"A change in hairstyle gives a new look."

"When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm."
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"Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves."

"A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together."

"Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world."

"In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered."

"Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity."

"Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends."

"The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device."

"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
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