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"I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself."
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"When you focus on diligence and hard work miracle will come to you."
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"You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!"
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"If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures."
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"You multiply your life when you invest it."
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"Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world's system."
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"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."
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"The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed."
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"Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man's goal is imitation, not redemption."
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"The knowledge of the purpose of the success that you receive by grace in every area will keep us from pride and the love of money."
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"Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling."
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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."
Love
"In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth."
Truth
"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
Afghanistan
"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."
Home
"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."
Society
"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."
Business
"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."
Work
"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."
Film
"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."
People
"Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth."
God
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